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Definition of Extenuatory
1. a. Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Definition of Extenuatory
1. Adjective. Tending to extenuate or palliate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extenuatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extenuatory
Literary usage of Extenuatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"... apparent or partial, as extenuatory of positive guilt, pp. 874-5. ; and on
the distribution of national rewards and honours to the representatives of ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... on Martial's palpable faults, without any extenuatory mention of his tenderer
touches and his exquisite little bits of landscape and rural picture. ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see ABUSE. euphemistic, a. soft (contextual), euphonious (rare); spec,
extenuatory. evacuate, vt I. empty, clear; spec, (rc- ferring to the ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"... or rather the veil, of stately diction and extenuatory phrases, but cannot
prevent the observant reader from seeing that the subject of this ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... Protestant,' elsewhere cited : ' FEW extenuatory biographies have succeeded
in removing one stain before affixed, or adding one plume to the wing that ..."
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