Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to extenuate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to extenuate or palliate.
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- adjective Tending to
extenuate orpalliate .
Etymologies
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Compare Latin extenuatorius attenuating.
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Examples
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And, having given this humorous twist to his argument, he glides off into extenuatory matter.
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Picord, maintains or exemplifies in the collection of his plays, -- as, if not actually to sit in judgment on my own performances, still to insinuate some excuse for their faults by extenuatory depositions as to their character and intentions.
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Picord, maintains or exemplifies in the collection of his plays, -- as, if not actually to sit in judgment on my own performances, still to insinuate some excuse for their faults by extenuatory depositions as to their character and intentions.
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