Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending or serving to excuse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Making excuse; containing excuse or apology; apologetical: as, an excusatory plea.
Wiktionary
- adj. serving to make an excuse
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. offering or expressing apology
Examples
“This is largely however because I'm more interested in the eploitative approach to strange fiction than the explicatory or excusatory approach.”
“I daresay there's many "world junkies" whose interest in explication doesn't rule out (i.e. over-ride completely) a liking for exploitative and excusatory modes and their results.”
“By "symbolic formulation", then, I mean those types of strange fiction which take a purely excusatory approach to the strange, rather than explicatory or exploitative approaches.”
“Again, this doesn't actually distinguish fantasy from any other (Romantic and excusatory) commercial genre, but that's not the point here.”
“This leads to much of the explicatory genre work, over time, becoming harder to distingish from the excusatory symbolic formulation of these Nth generation knock-offs.”
“If he's right to do so -- and I think he is -- this indicates some other aesthetic at play here, something more to immersion than the Romantic glamour, the excusatory fancy of symbolic formulation.”
“Unfortunately that conflation is common amongst those less versed in the relevant genres since the excusatory symbolic formulation, by nature, rips off the explicatory works, simulating authenticity by simply copying from the original.”
“The categorisation and reference problems mentioned earlier as regards the term "fat fantasy" are highlighted here, in the risk of conflating the excusatory and the explicatory.”
“At this point, I think, we need to distinguish purely excusatory "fat fantasy" where the worldbuilding is largely irrelevant, superficial and derivative (the classic Tolkien clone) from explicatory "fat fantasy" where the worldbuilding is integral, layered and innovative (as in Tolkien himself).”
“This is an additional Unsaid that Democrats conceal with their excusatory blather about "changing course" now that the Iraq Adventure has turned into Friday the 13th.”
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