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Significados de extenuation en inglés

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To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.

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Uso de extenuation en inglés
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The plea in extenuation of guilt and mitigation of punishment is perpetual.
Lectures on Modern history
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These circumstances must be pleaded in extenuation of its shortcomings and demerits.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 181...
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But that theory has never been advanced in extenuation of their behavior.
Russian Rambles
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Still, I must say, there was much in extenuation of his conduct.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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Perhaps his injustice to the Empress might likewise admit a little extenuation.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 / Historical...
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But let me tell you in extenuation that I've discovered your offspring.
Mr. Prohack
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Yet before I have done, I want to indicate pleas of extenuation.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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And her effort at sympathy, at extenuation, failed utterly before her pride.
The Light of the Western Stars
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Nor, indeed, does his lordship consider that his injuries admit of extenuation.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
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Would any person have regarded that as an extenuation of his sin?
The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Ill...
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Those were circumstances in extenuation and mitigation, but a long way from exoneration.
Acts of faith
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It is all that I can offer in excuse or extenuation.
A Face Illumined
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I must say, in extenuation, that of optimists I am the most optimistic.
The People of the Abyss
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Nothing can be pleaded in extenuation of this relapse into folly.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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Flood for any statement he had to make in extenuation of his conduct.
Journals of Australian Explorations
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For myself, I knew of nothing to say in extenuation of my speech.
Dead Man's Rock
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