extenuatory
adj/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/
Etymology
Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).
Definitions
Tending to extenuate or palliate.
- Johnson has spread over Savage's character the varnish, or rather the veil, of stately diction and extenuatory phrases, but cannot prevent the observant reader from seeing that Savage was an ungrateful and insolent profligate.
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