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extenuation
noun as in an excuse
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noun as in reduction
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Example Sentences
The other acknowledged the fact with some degree of reluctance, and explained, with many "buts" as an excuse in extenuation.
In such case the defendant was empowered to plead the facts in extenuation, and also to pay money into court by way of amends.
The object of this examination grinned a faint grin of extenuation.
But this does injustice to these marauders of the sea, who put in a plea of extenuation.
Their delinquency, it is true, does not cancel hers, but it offers some slight degree of extenuation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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