extenuation in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for extenuation in the English»French Dictionary

extenuation [Brit ɪkstɛnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n, ɛkstɛnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n, Am ɪkˌstɛnjəˈweɪʃ(ə)n] N

extenuation

atténuation f

extenuation in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for extenuation in the English»French Dictionary

extenuation [ɪkˌstenjʊˈeɪʃn] N no pl form

extenuation

atténuation f

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

These witnesses offer to make statements in extenuation and mitigation if a guilty verdict is given.

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It must, however, be remembered in extenuation that the legal status of a person on the foundation of a collegiate body had not then been decided in the law-courts.

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Her later leadership of health care reform was viewed as an extenuation of the feminism and liberalism evangelicals' disliked in her.

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The conditions were favorable for remembrance of all his good deeds, and generous extenuation of all his evil ones.

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The "but" that was deemed so necessary after 9/11 -- that great "but" from which all the lesser "buts" have sprung -- was the "but" of extenuation.

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In practice, evidence in extenuation is closely associated with capital punishment.

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