We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present. From LearnThat.org. [Fairfield Osborn (1887-1969).]
Verb (used with object), : to extenuate a crime. ,Do not extenuate the difficulties we are in. From Dictionary.com.
Above disguise, above art, above attempting to extenuate a failing. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The circumstances extenuate the crime. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This I neither "extenuate" nor "set down in malice," but merely record the fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
I would not "set down aught in malice," I would rather "extenuate," yet am I bound in truth to say that. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
None of GORST's business to defend or extenuate it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891] Reference
That such as she could not conceal, she should extenuate. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
But there are crimes which nothing can efface or extenuate. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
It might aggravate it or extenuate it, or it might combat it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Media in the New Century - January 2, 2000] Reference
To explain would be to extenuate, and that we wish not to do. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She sought to explain and extenuate the spending of every penny. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
"It wasn't my money," he said, as if to extenuate his previous denial. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
I have no wish to extenuate or explain away any fault or crime of which. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
Not improbably I tried to extenuate my inhumanity by the argument that if. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
For charity is wont to extenuate faults, justice doth never exaggerate them. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Neither passion nor ignorance of the right rule can extenuate responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Orator to be able either to exaggerate, or extenuate, as occasion might require. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
'Nothing extenuate nor aught set down in malice,' should be the rule of our souls. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
If any voice is raised among ourselves to extenuate or to vindicate, it is unheard. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Far be it from me to offer to defend the unhappy man, or even unduly to extenuate his crime!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
What! shall we deny or extenuate our sins while we call our people to free and full confession?. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
Spendius, to extenuate his fault, or to revive his courage, asserted that some hope still remained. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
But he is a daring man who would venture from this either to justify or extenuate an impure ministry. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
I mean these levees are like putting your thumb over a garden hose and they just extenuate the pressure. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008] Reference
Christes gospell: And this to do/is so greate a synne/as no mã cã extenuate by ony blind cloke or reason. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
When it is said that the question is only one of political morality, this does not extenuate its importance. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
The vse of circũstances profiteth to amplifie, to extenuate, to euidence, to confirmacion, and probabilitie. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes] Reference
Which sayinge truly is harde and sharpe/but most true/and teachith all men that they shuld not extenuate synne. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
But I also, to extenuate on one of his questions, what would you do if you, by chance, did run into him on street?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2003] Reference
But it is my business, and shall be all my business, to repent of my failings, and not endeavour to extenuate them. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The prisoner in his defence did not pretend to deny the fact, but as much as he was able endeavoured to extenuate it. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Indeed, to extenuate, as you command me, as I go along, these were mostly when I was apprehensive for my honour, they were. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
But whether he is to be believed or not, the fact that four of the prisoners went down in irons is impossible to extenuate. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Would Mr. GREELEY extenuate the outrage because the strong fellow had previously "fought the crowd zealously, effectively, persistently"?. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870] Reference
When, however, my character is insulted, and my poor reputation attacked, extenuate, I beseech you, the enormity of my crime, by relating the hardships of my sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827] Reference
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