Extenuation

(noun.) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.

(noun.) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.

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• I hope this history of my conduct towards her will be admitted by you and my father as great extenuation of what you saw amiss. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For sins of omission a lack of space affords a reasonable excuse, and for those of commission the great scope of the work is pleaded in extenuation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Circumstances over which had no control,' was the miserable creature's plea in extenuation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Neither Mrs. Maylie, nor Harry, nor Rose (who all came in together), could offer a word in extenuation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Tossed about all her life from one foreign school to another, she may justly proffer the plea of ignorance in extenuation of most of her faults. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It may bring many extenuations. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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