extenuation

Etymology
An adaptation of, the oblique stem of the , noun of action from. Equivalent to. Compare the 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The  of extenuating;.
 * 2) The action or  of making or becoming ; an  of this; a  condition;,.
 * 3) * 1655, Culpepper, Riverius, i.v.19:
 * A yong man…had an extenuation for want of nourishment in his Limbs.
 * 1)  Making less ;.
 * 2) * 1655–60, Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), page 64/2:
 * Winds proceed from extenuation of the Air, by the Sun.
 * 1)  The action or process of making  or diminishing in ; an instance of this.
 * 2)  The action of making  or ; and instance of this; a weakening, .   (of  or ).
 * 3) * 1542–3, Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 18:
 * The saide citie is much decaid…not a little to the extenuacion of that part of this realme.
 * 1) * 1707, Atterbury, Serm. v. (1723), volume II, page 159:
 * What Deeds of Charity we have to alledge in Extenuation of our Punishment.
 * 1) The action of representing (something) as  and ; underrating; an instance of this, a  to this ; a  in terms.
 * 2)  A  in which a term is used which, in  with the more  term it supplants, understates or seeks to diminish the  of something.
 * 3) * 1589, Puttenham, Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.), page 227:
 * We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation.
 * 1) * 1823, in Crabb, Technol. Dict.
 * 2) The action of lessening, or seeking to lessen, the  of (an  or ) by alleging partial excuses; and instance or  of doing this; a plea in mitigation of.
 * 3) * ante 1674, Clarendon, Surv. Leviath. (1676), page 180:
 * He…was to find excuses and extenuations for sins.
 * 1) * ante 1832,, Wks. (1843), volume I, page 174:
 * The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations…to different classes of offences.
 * 1) * 1839, Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, volume I, page 28:
 * In extenuation of a noble error.
 * 1)  Thin garments.
 * 1)  A  in which a term is used which, in  with the more  term it supplants, understates or seeks to diminish the  of something.
 * 2) * 1589, Puttenham, Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.), page 227:
 * We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation.
 * 1) * 1823, in Crabb, Technol. Dict.
 * 2) The action of lessening, or seeking to lessen, the  of (an  or ) by alleging partial excuses; and instance or  of doing this; a plea in mitigation of.
 * 3) * ante 1674, Clarendon, Surv. Leviath. (1676), page 180:
 * He…was to find excuses and extenuations for sins.
 * 1) * ante 1832,, Wks. (1843), volume I, page 174:
 * The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations…to different classes of offences.
 * 1) * 1839, Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, volume I, page 28:
 * In extenuation of a noble error.
 * 1)  Thin garments.
 * He…was to find excuses and extenuations for sins.
 * 1) * ante 1832,, Wks. (1843), volume I, page 174:
 * The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations…to different classes of offences.
 * 1) * 1839, Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, volume I, page 28:
 * In extenuation of a noble error.
 * 1)  Thin garments.
 * In extenuation of a noble error.
 * 1)  Thin garments.