extenuation
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1 extenuation
A partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.
synoniem: mitigation.
Roget 36: decrease, diminution; lessening etc. v.; subtraction etc. 38; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking etc. (contraction.) ... meer laten zien
2 extenuation
To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
synoniemen: mitigation, palliation.
Roget 937: vindication, justification, warrant; exoneration, exculpation; acquittal etc. 970; whitewashing. extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation. ... meer laten zien
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