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Extenuator vs Extenuatory - What's the difference?

extenuator | extenuatory |

As a noun extenuator

is one who extenuates.

As an adjective extenuatory is

tending to extenuate or palliate.

extenuator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who extenuates.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    extenuatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to extenuate or palliate.
  • * (John Wilson Croker)
    • 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.