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Definition extenuation
Etymology
An adaptation of extenu?ti?n-, the oblique stem of the Latin extenu?ti? (“a thinning or diminishing”, “rarefaction”; rhetoric “a lessening”, “diminution”, “extenuation”), noun of action from extenu? (“I thin, reduce, or diminish”). Equivalent to extenuate + -(t)ion. Compare the French exténuation.
Noun
extenuation (countable and uncountable, plural extenuations)
- (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
- The action or process of making or becoming thin; an instance of this; a shrunken condition; leanness, emaciation.
- (of air, obsolete) Making less dense; rarefaction.
- (obsolete) The action or process of making slender or diminishing in bulk; an instance of this.
- (obsolete) The action of making less or weak; and instance of this; a weakening, impoverishment. Also, mitigation (of blame or punishment).
- The action of representing (something) as slight and trifling; underrating; an instance of this, a plea to this end; a modification in terms.
- (rhetoric, obsolete) A figure in which a term is used which, in contrast with the more fitting term it supplants, understates or seeks to diminish the significance of something.
- The action of lessening, or seeking to lessen, the guilt of (an offence or fault) by alleging partial excuses; and instance or means of doing this; a plea in mitigation of censure.
- (US, humorous, in the plural as “extenuations”) Thin garments.
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