extenuation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɪksˌtɛnjʊˈeɪʃən/|/ɛksˌtɛnjʊˈeɪʃən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; The action or process of making or becoming thin; an instance of this; a shrunken condition; leanness, emaciation. countable,uncountable
    — This mightily helpeth the extenuation of members.
  2. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; Making less dense; rarefaction. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Winds proceed from extenuation of the Air, by the Sun.
  3. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; The action or process of making slender or diminishing in bulk; an instance of this. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — All Dilatation is some degree of Extenuation.
  4. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; The action of making less or weak; and instance of this; a weakening, impoverishment. Also, mitigation (of blame or punishment). countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The saide citie is much decaid…not a little to the extenuacion of that part of this realme.
  5. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; The action of representing (something) as slight and trifling; underrating; an instance of this, a plea to this end; a modification in terms. countable,uncountable
    — Sometimes…wee humble ourselves lower than there is cause…And no lesse well doth God take these submisse extenuations of our selves.
  6. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; The action of representing (something) as slight and trifling; underrating; an instance of this, a plea to this end; a modification in terms.; 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. countable,obsolete,rhetoric,uncountable
    — We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation.
  7. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; 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. countable,uncountable
    — Extenuation, by which the Crime, that seemed great, is made lesse.
  8. The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.; Thin garments. US,countable,humorous,in-plural,uncountable
    — They were clad in silken extenuations from the throat to the feet.

词形变化

extenuations plural extenuacion alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
in extenuation of

词源

An adaptation of extenuātiōn-, the oblique stem of the Latin extenuātiō (“a thinning or diminishing”, “rarefaction”; rhetoric “a lessening”, “diminution”, “extenuation”), noun of action from extenuō (“to thin, reduce, or diminish”). Equivalent to extenuate + -ion. Compare the French exténuation.
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