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[ verb ] lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Examples "The circumstances extenuate the crime" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created as children , Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience as being `` due , no_doubt , to carelessness , but still wicked '' . (John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)The editor of the Newport_Advertiser could discover no evidence of extenuating circumstances in the Brown trial which would warrant making an exception to the infliction of capital_punishment . Related terms |
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