Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

06741728-n 'a partial excuse to mitigate censure';

English	mitigation ( ⊳ ⊳ ) , extenuation ( ⊳ )
Japanese	仮借

Definitions

English: a partial excuse to mitigate censure
an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Japanese: 非難を和らげる部分的な弁解
それが酌量すべき情状を示すことにより見かけほど罪が深刻でないことを表そうとする試み

Relations

Hypernym:	excuse
Semantic Field:	communication_n

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TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.321; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: ▲ ▼ (+0.38 -0.38) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.25 -0.38)