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Meaning of extenuatory | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/

Definitions

Tending to extenuate or palliate.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

exterior exterminable exterminatable exterminative exterminatory extern