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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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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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