Mitigation
[n] to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
[n] a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
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abatement, about-face, abridgment, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allayment, alleviation, allowance, alteration, amelioration, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, apostasy, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, benevolence, bettermen