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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 375 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGGRAVATION (from
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Lat. ad, increasing, and gravis, heavy)
  , the making anything graver or more serious, especially of offences; also used as synonymous with " irritation . In the
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canon law " aggravation " was a form of ecclesiastical censure, threatening excommunication after three disregarded admonitions .

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