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extenuatory

/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/

extenuatory adjective: tending to extenuate or palliate.

Adjective

extenuatory (comparative more extenuatory, superlative most extenuatory)

  1. 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.1831, John Wilson Croker, notes in The Life of Samuel Johnson (by James Boswell)

Forms of extenuatory

comparativemore extenuatory
superlativemost extenuatory

Origin of extenuatory

Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).

Words formed from extenuatory

Questions about extenuatory

What does extenuatory mean?
Extenuatory means tending to extenuate or palliate.
What part of speech is extenuatory?
Extenuatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce extenuatory?
Extenuatory is pronounced /ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/.

Words near extenuatory in the dictionary

  1. extenuations
  2. extenuative
  3. extenuatives
  4. extenuator
  5. extenuators
  6. extenuatory
  7. exterge
  8. exterior
  9. exterior angle
  10. exterior angles
  11. exterior derivative

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