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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Tending to extenuate.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Tending to extenuate or palliate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Tending to extenuate or palliate.

Etymologies

  1. Compare Latin extenuatorius attenuating. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And, having given this humorous twist to his argument, he glides off into extenuatory matter.”

    Sterne

  • “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.”

    Godolphin, Volume 1.

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