Term: mitigating circumstance: (law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense
Candidate hypernym: circumstance: information that should be kept in mind when making a decision → 1
Candidate hypernym: sour bread: made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active → 0
Candidate hypernym: wood ibis: any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis → 0
Candidate hypernym: head crash: (computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk) → 0
Candidate hypernym: indri: large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn → 0
Candidate hypernym: alundum: a substance made of fused alumina → 0
Candidate hypernym: changeableness: the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change → 0
Candidate hypernym: spy: (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors → 0
Candidate hypernym: entente: an informal alliance between countries → 0
Candidate hypernym: nitella: fragile branching stoneworts → 0
Candidate hypernym: site: physical position in relation to the surroundings → 0