extenuation

1. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.Examples: "This mightily helpeth the extenuation of members."; "A yong man…had an extenuation for want of nourishment in his Limbs."; "Galen commends tepid Baths for…curing all Extenuations."countableuncountable

2. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.Examples: "Winds proceed from extenuation of the Air, by the Sun."countableobsoleteuncountable

3. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.Examples: "All Dilatation is some degree of Extenuation."; "The Sea is the same at all seasons; what it gets by Rivers and showers, losing by exhalations and extenuations through the excessive heats…within the Torrid Zone."; "Gregory the Great…says that God penetrates everything without extenuation."countableobsoleteuncountable

4. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.Examples: "The saide citie is much decaid…not a little to the extenuacion of that part of this realme."; "Such extenuation let me begge, As in reproofe of many Tales deuis’d…I may…Finde pardon on my true submission."; "The gallantry of Henry’s heroique spirit tended somewhat to the…extenuation of Charles his glory."countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.Examples: "Sometimes…wee humble ourselves lower than there is cause…And no lesse well doth God take these submisse extenuations of our selves."; "Through their…extenuation [of their grievance], wretchedness and peevishness they undo themselves."; "Many died of it every day, so that now all our extenuations abated."countableuncountable

6. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.Examples: "We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation."; "When for extenuation sake we use a lighter and more easie word or terme then the matter requires."; "1823, in Crabb, Technol. Dict."countableobsoleterhetoricuncountable