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What is the noun for extenuatory?

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extenuation
  1. (countable and uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
    1. The action or process of making or becoming thin; an instance of this; a shrunken condition; leanness, emaciation.
    2. (of air, obsolete) Making less dense; rarefaction.
    3. (obsolete) The action or process of making slender or diminishing in bulk; an instance of this.
    4. (obsolete) The action of making less or weak; and instance of this; a weakening, impoverishment. Also, mitigation (of blame or punishment).
    5. The action of representing (something) as slight and trifling; underrating; an instance of this, a plea to this end; a modification in terms.
    6. The action of lessening, or seeking to lessen, the guilt of (an offence or fault) by alleging partial excuses; and instance or means of doing this; a plea in mitigation of censure.
    7. (humorous) Thin garments.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If the degree of participation were known, it might operate in aggravation or extenuation of the degree of his guilt.”
      “Nor is it any extenuation of this crime to argue that most of that property was bequeathed by Papists, and therefore became lawfully forfeited to the State at the overthrow of that Church in Britain.”
      “Showing that some of those killed were even more bloodthirsty than their killers is no extenuation.”
extenuacion
  1. Obsolete spelling of extenuation [16th C.]
extenuator
  1. One who extenuates.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Even drink, that great extenuator of grievous bodily harm inflicted on the fairground, could not turn a rape into the natural outcome of uncontrollable impulses.”
extenuations
extenuacions
  1. plural of extenuacion
extenuators
  1. plural of extenuator
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