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Extenuation

nounid 49587·updated May 18, 2026
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to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

polysemous

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Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
mitigation
plural
Extenuations
possessive
Extenuation's
pluralpossessive
Extenuations'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
§2
a partial excuse to mitigate censure
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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