extenuating circumstance

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extenuating circumstance (plural extenuating circumstances)

  1. (law, or general usage, chiefly in the plural) Any fact that mitigates or lessens a crime.
    Synonyms: attenuating circumstance, mitigating circumstance, mitigating factor
    Antonyms: aggravating circumstance, aggravating factor, aggravation
    • 1976, Harry N. Casselman, “Case No. 7”, in Earl R. Baderschneider, Paul F. Miller, editors, Labor Arbitration in Health Care: A Case Book‎[1], New York: Spectrum Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
      In the instant case, testimony has been offered that there were extenuating circumstances which might have made it impossible for the Hospital to comply with the time limit (Union office closed on April 4, 1974, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March).

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