extenuatory

a. 使减轻的, 酌情的 [法] 使减轻的, 可原谅的

发音

/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/
/ɛksˈtɛnjuəˌtɔɹi/

词形变化

more extenuatory 比较级 most extenuatory 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Tending to extenuate or palliate.

    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.

词源

Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).

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