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

exterior exterminable exterminatable exterminative exterminatory extern

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