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Definition of Extenuations
1. extenuation [n] - See also: extenuation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extenuations
Literary usage of Extenuations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1904)
"Of CRIMES, EXCUSES, and extenuations. A Sinne, is not onely a Transgression of
a Law, but also any Contempt of the Legislator. ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1839)
"... that in such case, there hath been no law made ; or else having been made, is
now abrogated. CHAPTER XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND extenuations. ..."
3. Zarathustra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel: Being a Treatise Upon the by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1906)
"Further extenuations. But let us, on the other hand, grant for a moment that
these writers indicting the texts for their Inscriptions were in fact ..."
4. The Ethics of Hobbes by Thomas Hobbes (1898)
"Of Crimes, Excuses, and extenuations. A SIN, is not only a transgression of a
law, but also any contempt of the legislator. For such contempt, is a breach ..."
5. The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos by Charles William Day (1844)
"It is because the tone of voice, expression of countenance, and other collateral
extenuations, are wanting to modify the words, which, ..."
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