The Only Use of
extenuating
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- — For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your father's will, Or else the law of Athens yields you up,— Which by no means we may extenuate,— To death, or to a vow of single life.†
Scene 1.1
Definition:
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of