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extenuation (suomeksi)
- Määritelmät:
- (lb, en, countable, and, uncountable) The (l, en, action) of (l, en, extenuate, extenuating); (l, en, extenuated) (l, en, condition).
- The action or (l, en, process) of making or becoming (l, en, thin); an (l, en, instance) of this; a (l, en, shrunken) condition; (l, en, leanness), (l, en, emaciation).
- * '''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'''.
- (lb, en, of air, obsolete) Making less (l, en, dense); (l, en, rarefaction).
- * '''1655–60''', Stanley, ''Hist. Philos.'' (1701), page 64/2:
- *: Winds proceed from '''extenuation''' of the Air, by the Sun.
- (lb, en, obsolete) The action or process of making (l, en, slender) or (l, en, diminish, diminishing) in (l, en, bulk); 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, en, obsolete) The action of making (l, en, less) or (l, en, weak); and instance of this; a (l, en, weaken, weakening), (l, en, impoverishment). (non-gloss definition, Also,) (l, en, mitigation) (of (l, en, blame) or (l, en, punishment)).
- * '''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., ''(w, Henry IV, Part 1)'', 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 (l, en, represent, representing) (something) as (l, en, slight) and (l, en, trifling); (l, en, underrate, underrating); an instance of this, a (l, en, plea) to this (l, en, end); a (l, en, modification) in (l, en, terms).
- * '''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 (w, Anna Maria Taigi)'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8TcBAAAAQAAJ&q=extenuations&dq=extenuations&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qJ_eU-XvIYne7Ab25YG4CQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA 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.
- (lb, en, rhetoric, obsolete) A (l, en, figure) in which a term is used which, in (l, en, contrast) with the more (l, en, fitting) term it (l, en, supplant, supplants), (l, en, understate, understates) or seeks to diminish the (l, en, significance) 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 (l, en, lessen, lessening), or seeking to lessen, the (l, en, guilt) of (an (l, en, offence) or (l, en, fault)) by (l, en, allege, alleging) partial (l, en, excuse, excuses); and instance or (l, en, means) of doing this; a plea in mitigation of (l, en, censure).
- * '''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.
- (lb, en, US, humorous, in the plural as “(l, en, extenuations)”) Thin (l, en, garment, garments).
- * '''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.