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unmitigated adjective absolute, complete, consummate, downright, exhaustive, full, intensive, plenary, rank, rigid, severe, sheer, stark, thorough, unbounded, unqualified, unsoftened, unsuppressed, untamed, untempered, unyielding, utter See also: absolute, categorical, chronic, comprehensive, conclusive, disorderly, drastic, flagrant, gross, harsh, intensive, outright, pure, rigid, severe, stark, thorough, unlimited, unqualified How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The myth also holds that, as something artificial and secondary to human nature, society exerts an unmitigatedly destructive pressure on individuality. Nominalism, in short and in effect, is his bible in a profane age in which what has historical meaning, time-less, time-tested, time-honored, is unmitigatedly effaced; and in which transcendental "visions of order" are trapped by what Fish terms "the authority of interpretive communities" as an "enigma of change. Seeking to revise New Historicism's assumption that queenly dominion over patriarchal society necessarily produces a type of cultural anxiety that becomes manifest in literary representation, Eggert argues that feminine authority, particularly the power of queen over (male) subject, offers Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton the opportunity to indulge "in fantasies of an unmitigatedly feminized literary form" (11). |
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