| 单词 | extenuating circumstances |
| 释义 | > as lemmasextenuating circumstances That extenuates in senses of the verb. Now chiefly in phrase extenuating circumstances: circumstances that tend to diminish culpability. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin > making extenuative1583 extenuating1607 emaciating1626 emaciant1638 emacerating1681 extenuant1756 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [adjective] > extenuating mincing1581 mitigating1583 extenuating1607 favourable1693 palliating1710 palliative1748 extenuatory1807 extenuative1827 palliatory1845 mitigatory1868 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 679 A thin extenuating diet. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (i. 2) i. 13 These words..are extenuating words. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ii. i. 63 Let him use things extenuating, as Hysop, Fennel..and especially Nutmeg. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) ii. ii. 198 It was not an extenuating but a just reflection which the Historian makes upon..Alexander. 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 139 Its Emanation..is from a Center into an Orb or Sphere, in Extenuating Lines. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 98 Galen holds that it is warming and extenuating. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive 55 In Clive's case, there were many extenuating circumstances. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 494 [Those] who have taken the life of another under the like extenuating circumstances. < as lemmas |
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