Extenuation is valid Scrabble Word

Is extenuation a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for EXTENUATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of extenuating
the action of lessening the seriousness of guilt or an offence
the process of making someone or something thin
The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act of extenuating or state of being extenuated; partial justification

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How to use EXTENUATION in a sentence

There is, in this work, too much spreading out and extenuation of a material which, in itself not very rich and varied, requires great skill to mould into an epic form.
There is this extenuation of the rashness of these young men, that Dr.
However, to be just, we must, in extenuation of all these absurdities, cite one passage more from Mme.
What shall we say of a nation that so ignominiously surrendered its liberties? All we can say in extenuation is that it was powerless.
No matter what may be said in extenuation, Arnold committed the greatest crime known to civilized nations.
But perhaps, if you knew all the circumstances, and had had my experience, you would find some extenuation of my fault.
Flood for any statement he had to make in extenuation of his conduct.
As an extenuation of this offence, the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority.
Whether he was right or wrong in his views of peace, or in not resigning when they were rejected by the Cabinet, he has nobly told the simple truth without gloss or extenuation.
In extenuation of the attempt I must add that the chief merit of this sketch will be its absence of originality.

In extenuation of this summary attempt I hasten to explain that its chief merit is its lack of originality.
Mauce stated several facts in extenuation of his offence.
All his life Ted Holiday had evaded responsibility and had found self extenuation the easiest thing in the world.
The first line in the forehead, the first streak in the hair are chronicled without malice, but without extenuation.
On the other hand, he was the only one who had ever stood up and said a word of extenuation for me in the teeth of a family squall.
Extenuation, dissimulation even, would have been a distinct solace.
On his doing so, I sat down at table with my father, and related to him the whole history of my misfortunes, without reserve or extenuation.
Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology.
And for many moments Peters found no excuse to offer, no apology, nothing in extenuation.
Even Martha, when she came in to lay the cloth for lunch, could think of nothing to say in extenuation of his offence.
Yet she recollected that she had refused to admit this plea on a recent occasion when Jane Carpenter had advanced it in extenuation of having called a fellow-student a liar.
What had the criminals to say in extenuation of their offences? 9.
It must be remembered in extenuation that he was just beginning his parliamentary education.
For the commentators no word of extenuation can be said.
But this victory was no extenuation for his offense in the eyes of the Dictator.
Remember, in extenuation, that Rivers was living on credit at this time, on borrowed money, and he did not like to be more extravagant than he had to.
But their excesses have been great! I do not mean to pronounce their panegyric, but must observe, in extenuation, the erroneous and infatuated counsels which have prevailed here.
In such case the defendant was empowered to plead the facts in extenuation, and also to pay money into court by way of amends.
Apart from a rather riotous and bad bringing up, which may be pleaded in extenuation, it is not possible to waste much sympathy over John Thurtell.
Her kind feminine fancy conjured up every possible extenuation of his dire offence.
You heard him plead, in extenuation of his fault, his mode of life, his rearing.
At times I wished the crime had been greater and its extenuation far less.
As for her, condemn her as we must, much can be pleaded in extenuation of her conduct.
Forced into a union with a gouty and decrepit old husband, the Countess of Exeter might have pleaded this circumstance in extenuation of some of her follies.
Catharine in her memoirs does not deny her fall, though she can not refrain from allowing an occasional word to drop from her pen, evidently intended in extenuation.
Is not this an honest confession? I could explain further in extenuation of my strange nature.

Similar words containing TENUA without suffix tion and without prefix ex

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