🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:

extenuation

noun

ex·​ten·​u·​a·​tion ik-ˌsten-yə-ˈwā-shən How to pronounce extenuation (audio)
-yü-ˈā-
1
: the act of extenuating something or the state of being extenuated
especially : partial justification
… it was never her aspiration to express herself virtuously so much as cleverly—a point to be remembered in extenuation of her words, which were usually worse than she was. George Eliot
The best we can say in extenuation is to point out that glory rather than greed prompted this act of injustice to a seaman. Samuel Eliot Morison
2
: something extenuating
especially : a partial excuse
He persuades us that … he was poor and that he was financially burdened with a wife and four children. One shudders for any contemporary wretch who would come before Safire's pen with a similar budget of extenuations. Thomas Flanagan

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Not surprisingly, fellow-travelers on the left criticized Conquest either from a wish to disbelieve the Soviet horrors or from an ideological sympathy that compelled extenuation of them. Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of extenuation was circa 1543

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime