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  1.  Not softened in respect of severity or intensity.

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1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, IV. i. 308. With publike accusation,… vnmittigated rancour.

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1814.  Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ix. The unmitigated glare of day.

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1833.  L. Ritchie, Wand. by Loire, 26. [It] is not an unmitigated evil.

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1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxv. 328. [He] fell sick with the unmitigated fatigue.

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1873.  Symonds, Gk. Poets, v. 129. Supreme art lends solemnity and grandeur to the expression of unmitigated passion.

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  2.  Not modified or toned down; absolute.

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1840.  Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), I. 428. Still more unmitigated savages, the wild Indians.

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1849.  C. Brontë, Shirley, vii. Caroline ‘was glad to see them’ (an unmitigated fib).

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1860.  All Year Round, No. 72. 511. In very plain speech, I look on him as an unmitigated humbug.

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1871.  L. Stephen, Playgr. Eur., iv. 311. A slope of hard, blue, unmitigated ice.

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  Hence Unmitigatedly adv.

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1851.  in C. Martyn, W. Phillips (1890), 242. Of all the institutions of slavery on the face of the earth, there are none so unmitigatedly bad … as [that] … in the United States of America.

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1855.  Ch. Times, 11 March, 76/3. The unmitigatedly gloomy manner in which funerals are now conducted.

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1884.  Manch. Exam., 27 Dec., 3/5. Nor is it unmitigatedly depressing, though far from cheerful.

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