Noun : The youth of the defendant served as an extenuation. From Dictionary.com.
Do you not think this will be taken in extenuation?. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
I must say, in extenuation, that I was very young at that time. From Wordnik.com. [Close to the War] Reference
I must say, in extenuation, that of optimists I am the most optimistic. From Wordnik.com. [Author's Preface] Reference
It must be admitted, in extenuation of the freedom allowed to themselves by. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
Nothing that can be brought forward in extenuation of Wirtz's atrocities can counterbalance the mass of damning evidence against him. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference
"But I somehow just can't," he said in extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 16] Reference
"I went across on the ferry to Oakland," Joe answered, not caring to offer his aching head and body in extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VII] Reference
The extenuation was the purity of his heart, and the bad situation of the Company's affairs, -- the perpetual plea, which your. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)] Reference
Freddie did not know what "extenuation" meant, but he could see by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure] Reference
"You look good to me," she cried, in extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER II] Reference
Let me however say a few words in extenuation of my folly. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
A moral failure, without extenuation, most Americans will regard Morris. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
This, though a poor excuse in the mother's eyes, still was an extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But remember, in extenuation, what I have told you of my origin and my growth. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
But not willingly, he pleaded, in extenuation; it had crept upon him unawares. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
It has been suggested in extenuation of his fiendish conduct that His Grace was. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
These circumstances must be pleaded in extenuation of its shortcomings and demerits. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
It was surely extenuation enough for any ignorance of the customs of such gatherings!. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
There is no need to say it, in fact: it is a work of genius, and demands no extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
"But, mamma," the child pleaded in extenuation, "you didn't tell me where to take it to.". From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
The calm verdict of history finds much ground of extenuation for the revolt of 1776; but for the. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
Much may be urged in extenuation of the offences of the German students in the seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
"I'm very sorry I spoke, sure," pleaded she in extenuation of her offence, "I didn't mean any harm!". From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Chia Ch'in got crimson in the face, and did not venture to utter a single word by way of extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
After the Auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
"No-o, that's not exactly the word," said Trevannion lamely, and waited for explanation or extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
"But Cyn is so handsome, and -- I do not see how you could help it!" pleaded Nattie in self-extenuation. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
For what need of extenuation in this regard for a woman whose immediate predecessors were Catharine I., and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
It may be urged in extenuation of his silence that his public were already familiar with these stories in the books of. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
Even Martha, when she came in to lay the cloth for lunch, could think of nothing to say in extenuation of his offence. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
But oh, "she offered, in extenuation," when mystery marches right up to you and begs to be looked into, what can you do?. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
"I was drunk then," was all he said, however, in extenuation of the last offence with which the captain had charged him. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Mrs. Tyler's friend offered the only extenuation possible -- the man had "been on board the Alabama and was very bitter.". From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
However the other two subjects may be opposed, some advantages may be still held out in extenuation of their practice, but. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
After appealing to his surrender in extenuation of his sentence, and beseeching the intercession of the Lords with his Majesty, Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
With this explanation, and this extenuation of what some persons may think an inexcusable and almost criminal delay, I shall proceed. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
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