• n.
    ⦿a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
    lexical concept

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
lexinfo:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:extenuation
  2. enl:mitigation
wn:interlingual indexili:i71924

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelextenuationmitigation