| AC V.ii.125 | [Caesar to Cleopatra] We will extenuate rather than enforce [i.e. your frailties] |
| JC III.ii.38 | [Brutus to all, of Caesar] his glory [is] not extenuated, wherein he was worthy |
| MA IV.i.48 | [Claudio to Leonato, of Hero] You will say she did embrace me as a husband, / And so extenuate the 'forehand sin |
| MM II.i.27 | [Angelo to Escalus, of Claudio] You may not so extenuate his offence / For I have had such faults |
| MND I.i.120 | [Theseus to Hermia, of the law] Which by no means we may extenuate |
| Oth V.ii.338 | [Othello to all] Speak of me as I am: nothing extenuate |
| TC II.ii.188 | [Hector to all] to persist / In doing wrong extenuates not wrong, / But makes it much more heavy |