| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Tending to extenuate or palliate.[Websters]
2. Being palliative, emollient or soothing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb extenuatorily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (extenuatorily) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective extenuatory.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EXTENUATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Extenuatory \Ex*ten"u*a*to*ry\, adjective. [Compare to Latin extenuatorius attenuating.]. (references) |
