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extenuation | exceptional |

As a noun extenuation

is the {{l/en|action}} of {{l/en|extenuate|extenuating}}; {{l/en|extenuated}} {{l/en|condition}}.

As an adjective exceptional is

forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.

extenuation

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

  • .
  • # The action or .
  • #* 1576 , Baker, Jewell of Health , page 171 a:
  • This mightily helpeth the extenuation of members.
  • #* 1655 , Culpepper, Riverius , i.v.19:
  • A yong man…had an extenuation for want of nourishment in his Limbs.
  • #* 1707 , Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch , page 183:
  • Galen commends tepid Baths for…curing all Extenuations .
  • #* 1781 October 27th, Johnson, Let. Mrs. Thrale :
  • The extenuation is her only bad symptom.
  • #* 1825 , Scott, Betrothed , xxx:
  • The female…exhibited…some symptoms of extenuation .
  • #* 1828 , Biog.'' in ''Ann. Reg. , page 474/2:
  • Some pallid from extenuation .
  • # .
  • #* 1655–60 , Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), page 64/2:
  • Winds proceed from extenuation of the Air, by the Sun.
  • # (lb) The action or process of making ; an instance of this.
  • #* 1619 , Donne, Serm. xiv, page 140:
  • All Dilatation is some degree of Extenuation .
  • #* 1665 , Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), page 186:
  • 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.
  • #* 1777 , Priestley, Matt. & Spir. (1782), volume I, chapter xix, page 229:
  • Gregory the Great…says that God penetrates everything without extenuation .
  • # (lb) The action of making ).
  • #* 1542–3 , Act'' 34–5 ''Hen. VIII , c. 18:
  • The saide citie is much decaid…not a little to the extenuacion of that part of this realme.
  • #* 1596 , Shaks., , act III, scene ii, 22:
  • Such extenuation let me begge, As in reproofe of many Tales deuis’d…I may…Finde pardon on my true submission.
  • #* 1654 , H. L’Estrange, Chas. I (1655), page 1:
  • The gallantry of Henry’s heroique spirit tended somewhat to the…extenuation of Charles his glory.
  • #* 1707 , Atterbury, Serm. v. (1723), volume II, page 159:
  • What Deeds of Charity we have to alledge in Extenuation of our Punishment.
  • # The action of .
  • #* 1614 , Bp. Hall, Recoll. Treat. , page 209:
  • Sometimes…wee humble ourselves lower than there is cause…And no lesse well doth God take these submisse extenuations of our selves.
  • #* 1621 , Burton, Anat. Mel. , ii.i.iv.ii.228:
  • Through their…extenuation [of their grievance], wretchedness and peevishness they undo themselves.
  • #* 1722 , De Foe, Plague (1840), page 6:
  • Many died of it every day, so that now all our extenuations abated.
  • #* 1859 , Mill, Liberty ii. (1865), page 13/2:
  • The utmost they allow is an extenuation of its absolute necessity.
  • #* 1873 , A.V.S. Sligo (translator), R.F. Calixte (author), The Life of the Venerable (Anna Maria Taigi) , page 303:
  • The simple matter-of-fact style of the narrative is, from its unobtrusive character, more adapted for spiritual reading than the views and generalisations, and prologetic extenuations of more recent biographers.
  • ## of something.
  • ##* 1589 , Puttenham, Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.), page 227:
  • #
    We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation .
  • ##* 1657 , J. Smith, Myst. Rhet. , page 56:
  • #
    When for extenuation sake we use a lighter and more easie word or terme then the matter requires.
  • ##* 1706 , in Phillips
  • ##* 1823 , in'' Crabb, ''Technol. Dict.
  • # The action of .
  • #* 1651 , Hobbes, Leviath. , ii., xxvii., page 156:
  • Extenuation , by which the Crime, that seemed great, is made lesse.
  • #* ante'' 1674 , Clarendon, ''Surv. Leviath. (1676), page 180:
  • He…was to find excuses and extenuations for sins.
  • #* 1712 , Addison, Spect. , ? 297, ¶ 1:
  • Whatever may be said for the Extenuation of such Defects.
  • #* 1750 , Johnson, Rambler , ? 39, ¶ 7:
  • It may be urged, in extenuation of this crime…that [etc.].
  • #* ante'' 1832 , Bentham, ''Wks. (1843), volume I, page 174:
  • The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations …to different classes of offences.
  • #* 1839 , Mackintosh, Eth. Philos. , Wks. 1846, volume I, page 28:
  • In extenuation of a noble error.
  • # .
  • #* 1881 May, G.W. Cable in Scribner’s Mag. , page 23:
  • They were clad in silken extenuations from the throat to the feet.
  • #* 1883 September 12th, Pall Mall G. , page 2/2:
  • One side wore…extenuations of a…green colour.

    • Derived terms

    *

    References

    * “Extenuation” listed on page 460/2–3] of § 2 (E, ed. (Henry Bradley)) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] (1st ed.)

    exceptional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
    • What an exceptional flower!
  • Better than the average; superior due to rarity.
    • The quality of the beer was exceptional.
  • Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
    • an exceptional''' curve; an '''exceptional divisor

    Synonyms

    * See also * (l)

    Antonyms

    * categorical

    Derived terms

    * exceptional space * exceptionally