• bland, depressant, extenuative, extenuatory, mitigative, soothing
• alleviation, extenuation, mitigation, mollification, relief
• extenuation, extenuative
• attenuating circumstances, extenuating circumstances
• to relieve one's sufferings
• to beguile one's sorrow
• to plead sg in extenuation of a crime
• if justice be unleavened with mercy