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Definition of Extenuated
1. extenuate [v] - See also: extenuate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extenuated
Literary usage of Extenuated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"... but it is one which should be reprobated rather than extenuated—which should
be shown no mercy in order that it may be eradicated as soon as possible. ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"He could not conceive how this could be extenuated. Another reason why this
emphatically was a libel was that it was said that Mr. Adams had taken to his ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... whose modesty had extenuated or concealed a great part of his merit. As every
person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world ..."
4. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"causee as engendering disease, are to be removed, modified, extenuated, or even
eradicated, by judicious ..."
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