Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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self-justification | Yes | No | No | No |
mitigation | Yes | No | No | No |
self-justification (noun) | mitigation (noun) |
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a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious |
the action of lessening in severity or intensity | |
a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances |