To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
1 The plea in extenuation of guilt and mitigation of punishment is perpetual.
2 These circumstances must be pleaded in extenuation of its shortcomings and demerits.
3 But that theory has never been advanced in extenuation of their behavior.
4 Still, I must say, there was much in extenuation of his conduct.
5 Perhaps his injustice to the Empress might likewise admit a little extenuation .
6 But let me tell you in extenuation that I've discovered your offspring.
7 Yet before I have done, I want to indicate pleas of extenuation .
8 And her effort at sympathy, at extenuation , failed utterly before her pride.
9 Nor, indeed, does his lordship consider that his injuries admit of extenuation .
10 Would any person have regarded that as an extenuation of his sin?
11 Those were circumstances in extenuation and mitigation, but a long way from exoneration.
12 It is all that I can offer in excuse or extenuation .
13 I must say, in extenuation , that of optimists I am the most optimistic.
14 Nothing can be pleaded in extenuation of this relapse into folly.
15 Flood for any statement he had to make in extenuation of his conduct.
16 For myself, I knew of nothing to say in extenuation of my speech.
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