An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
EXTENUATORY
Etymology
Adjective
extenuatory (comparative more extenuatory, superlative most extenuatory)
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.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*ten"u*a*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. L. extenuatorius attenuating.]
Definition: Tending to extenuate or palliate. Croker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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