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Example sentences for "extenuation"

Lexicographically close words:
extent; extents; extenuate; extenuated; extenuating; exterior; exteriorly; exteriors; exteriour; exterminate
  1. Is there aught more that ye would say in extenuation of your crime?

  2. But, supposing this to be true, it only proves, what may perhaps be alleged as a sort of extenuation of these severe laws against nonconformists, that they were merely political, and did not spring from any theological bigotry.

  3. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

  4. One can only plead, in extenuation of these defects, that the fashion of his day was for long metrical romance, in which it is difficult to maintain the high standard of careful composition exacted by the latest criticism.

  5. It was in vain for the Young Man to offer in extenuation of his belief that no stranger could have set foot on those shores with a feeling of livelier interest in the country, and stronger faith in it, than he.

  6. Major, he scarcely denied it," said the Captain, in extenuation of their suspicions.

  7. The penalty of contriving the escape of prisoners is one I do not like to mention to you; but since the man in this case was innocent, and I take your evidence in proof--well, that might be some extenuation of the act.

  8. Yet the state of the prince's health may be fairly mentioned in extenuation of his defects,--at least of his infirmity of temper.

  9. Mary's treatment of Elizabeth has formed another subject of reproach, though the grounds of it are not sufficiently made out; and, at all events, many circumstances may be alleged in extenuation of her conduct.

  10. But then, as this circumstance may be justly termed an extenuation of their errour, it ought to be a lesson of caution to us, that we may not be, in the like manner, betrayed into the same weakness.

  11. In extenuation of these illegal acts it is alleged that the States of California, Michigan, and others were self-organized, and as such were admitted into the Union without a previous enabling act of Congress.

  12. They did not deny any of these charges; they offered no explanation, nothing in extenuation of their conduct, but contumaciously refused to hold any intercourse with the commander of the Cyane.

  13. We are aware that he was surrounded with flatterers and sycophants, who wished to gratify their own avarice and pride by extending his tyrannical power; but ought such a mean excuse to be urged in extenuation of his crimes?

  14. Mr. Bell appears never to have forgiven himself for his dereliction from the path of virtue, and only urged, in extenuation of his conduct, the cruel necessity he was under to oblige his patron.

  15. Breathitt County is not a remote section, out of touch with civilization, where ignorance might be pleaded in extenuation of the shameful lawlessness.

  16. I mention this point as some extenuation of my mother's conduct.

  17. It must, however, be offered in his extenuation that he was a midshipman and a philosopher, and not yet eighteen.

  18. Had he been less cruel, something might have been said in extenuation of his meanness.

  19. Had he been less mean, something might have been said in extenuation of his cruelty.

  20. We have nothing to say in defence or extenuation of the insolence, injustice, and cruelty with which, after the victory of the republicans, he and his family were treated.

  21. A slight pause followed this accusation, and the herald again stood forth and demanded if any minstrel or Troubadour could say aught in extenuation of the offence of the accused.

  22. After this plea of general merit, in extenuation of specific charges, their lordships passed a resolution to proceed with the trial on the first Tuesday in the next session of parliament.

  23. Lord North, indeed, candidly admitted that some of his plans had miscarried; arguing, in extenuation of their failure, that it was impossible to foresee every event.

  24. Louis pleaded to himself the partial phrenzy of his father's mind, as some extenuation of his conduct.

  25. What have you to say in extenuation of your conduct?

  26. And now what have you to say in extenuation of your shameful conduct?

  27. Have you any thing to say in excuse or extenuation for said publication?

  28. It was impossible to say one word in Wilde's defence or even in extenuation of his sin in any London print.

  29. There are two further reasons in extenuation of this lengthiness.

  30. The spirit which is occasionally shown in his controversial writing is to be deplored but it may be said in extenuation that all controversies of that time were disfigured in the same way.

  31. Could I plead anything in extenuation to him--then?

  32. It was a terrible alternative, that of handing over a fellow-countryman to the despotic treatment of a foreign Power, and before such a thing was made possible, every item of extenuation should be urged in behalf of the accused.

  33. I have only one word of extenuation for myself and the millions of others who did as I did that night--ignorance.

  34. I have only one word of extenuation for myself and all those people--ignorance.


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    Other words:
    abatement; abridgment; alleviation; allowance; apology; attrition; color; contraction; deadening; decontamination; decrement; deduction; deflation; depreciation; depression; diminution; dying; excuse; exhaustion; fatigue; gloss; lessening; lowering; mitigation; palliative; plea; qualification; reduction; relaxation; sagging; simplicity; slackening; softening; subtraction; thinning; varnish; weakening; whitewash; whitewashing