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AGGRAVATION (from See also:Lat. ad, increasing, and gravis, heavy) , the making anything graver or more serious, especially of offences; also used as synonymous with " irritation. In the See also:canon See also:law " aggravation " was a See also:form of ecclesiastical censure, threatening See also:excommunication after three disregarded admonitions.

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