remitigate

English

Etymology

re- +‎ mitigate

Verb

remitigate (third-person singular simple present remitigates, present participle remitigating, simple past and past participle remitigated)

1. To mitigate again.
   • 1671, Robert MacWard, The True Non-conformist in Answere to the Modest and Free Conference Betwixt a Conformist and a Non-Conformist, About the present Distempers of Scotland, page 387:

     yet where the deed is in substance agreeable to the precept, and the apparent singularity of any circumstance remitigated by another extraordinary occurrent, and where the performance is expressly ascribed to the actors zeal or fortitude, and not the least mention made of any special command, there, to recurre to tacite warrants, is altogether groundless.

   • 1965, United States. Congress. House. Public Works, Hurricane Betsy Disaster of September 1965, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Areas of Destruction of Hurricane Betsy:

     I think that if we had a barge instead of being an open-hatched barge like this is with four long cylinders lying on it and vulnerable to being swamped by water getting over into the hole, instead of that, there was an especially designed barge for this, that had buoyancy in itself, then this problem would be certainly remitigated.

   • 2011, The Views of the Administration on Regulatory Reform, page 50:

     Is there anything in the Endangered Species Act that requires that when you go in to clean out a flood control channel to you to go back and mitigate every few years, you have to remitigate for that again, even though you had originally mitigated.

   • 2015, Manijeh Mannani, Veronica Thompson, Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature, page 141:

     Izadpanah must approach this topic afresh and remitigate his anxiety by marrying Farideh, who is described as having an “outward appearance” that “consisted of thick gray socks, manly flat shoes, and furled up eyebrows” (216).