extenuation
n. 酌情减轻, 减轻 [医] 减轻, 减量, 细小, 消瘦
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1.
The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
The action or process of making or becoming thin; an instance of this; a shrunken condition; leanness, emaciation.
可数 不可数A yong man…had an extenuation for want of nourishment in his Limbs.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
Making less dense; rarefaction.
可数 废旧 不可数Winds proceed from extenuation of the Air, by the Sun.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
The action or process of making slender or diminishing in bulk; an instance of this.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
The action of making less or weak; and instance of this; a weakening, impoverishment. Also, mitigation (of blame or punishment).
可数 废旧 不可数The saide citie is much decaid…not a little to the extenuacion of that part of this realme.
What Deeds of Charity we have to alledge in Extenuation of our Punishment.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
The action of representing (something) as slight and trifling; underrating; an instance of this, a plea to this end; a modification in terms.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
The action of representing (something) as slight and trifling; underrating; an instance of this, a plea to this end; a modification in terms.
A figure in which a term is used which, in contrast with the more fitting term it supplants, understates or seeks to diminish the significance of something.
可数 废旧 不可数We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation.
1823, in Crabb, Technol. Dict.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
The action of lessening, or seeking to lessen, the guilt of (an offence or fault) by alleging partial excuses; and instance or means of doing this; a plea in mitigation of censure.
可数 不可数He…was to find excuses and extenuations for sins.
The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations…to different classes of offences.
In extenuation of a noble error.
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The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
Thin garments.
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An adaptation of extenuātiōn-, the oblique stem of the Latin extenuātiō (“a thinning or diminishing”, “rarefaction”; rhetoric “a lessening”, “diminution”, “extenuation”), noun of action from extenuō (“to thin, reduce, or diminish”). Equivalent to extenuate + -ion. Compare the French exténuation.
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