Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.
1 I do not defend his errors; I only seek to extenuate them.
2 Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straitened circumstances even in this world.
3 Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straightened circumstances even in this world.
4 Her sins are grievous and she does not deny or extenuate them.
5 He did not attempt to excuse himself, or to extenuate his fault.
6 For charity is wont to extenuate faults, justice doth never exaggerate them.
7 She sought to explain and extenuate the spending of every penny.
8 He felt it useless to quibble or to try to extenuate the facts.
9 Theft is theft, whatever the circumstances that seem to extenuate it.
10 I do not want to excite your pity or to extenuate my sin.
11 I do not extenuate my own offences, but I will not criminate others.
12 To explain would be to extenuate , and that we wish not to do.
13 Nothing did he extenuate , but he wronged neither Polly nor himself.
14 It was not Sally Owen's way to extenuate errors of commission or omission.
15 What shall I say to extenuate the misconduct of last night?
16 The lover should be present, to confute, to extenuate , or to verify the charges.
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