extenuation

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Many other cases of Aggravation, and Extenuation might be added: but by these I have set down, it is obvious to every man, to take the altitude of any other Crime proposed.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

Extenuation, dissimulation even, would have been a distinct solace.

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will