extenuation

Synonyymisanakirja

extenuation

  1. pienentäminen, supistaminen, vähentäminen, alentaminen, vähennys, lieventäminen, puolustus, alibi, tekosyy, selitys, veruke, lievennys.

Lisää synonyymejä Synonyymit.fi:ssä

Käännökset

englanti

puolustus

lieventäminen puhekieltä The (l) of (l); (l) (l).
The action or (l) of making or becoming (l); an (l) of this; a (l) condition; (l), (l).
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.
puhekieltä Making less (l); (l).
1655–60, Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), page 64/2:
Winds proceed from extenuation of the Air, by the Sun.
puhekieltä The action or process of making (l) or (l) in (l); 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.
puhekieltä The action of making (l) or (l); and instance of this; a (l), (l). (non-gloss definition) (l) (of (l) or (l)).
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), 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) (something) as (l) and (l); (l); an instance of this, a (l) to this (l); a (l) in (l).
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), 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.
puhekieltä A (l) in which a term is used which, in (l) with the more (l) term it (l), (l) or seeks to diminish the (l) 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), or seeking to lessen, the (l) of (an (l) or (l)) by (l) partial (l); and instance or (l) of doing this; a plea in mitigation of (l).
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.
puhekieltä” Thin (l).
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.

Riimisanakirja

extenuation rimmaa näiden kanssa:

science fiction, lotion

Lisää riimejä

Läheisiä sanoja

ex tempore, ex-, eximia cum laude approbatur, exlibris, faabeli, faarao

Rakastatko sanoja? Tarvitsetko lisää määritelmiä?

Tilaamalla Suomen suurimman sanakirjan saat tuhansia määritelmiä ja tarkennetun haun ilman mainoksia!

Suomisanakirja Pro

Selaa sanakirjoja: Sivistyssanat   Slangi   Antonyymit   Lyhenteet   Muunna   Osta verkkotunnus

Suomi sanakirja .fi   Tietoa