Extenuatory vs Extenuators - What's the difference?
extenuatory | extenuators |
Tending to extenuate or palliate.
* (John Wilson Croker)
As an adjective extenuatory
is tending to extenuate or palliate.As a noun extenuators is
.extenuatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.