"extenuatory" meaning in English

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      "form": "more extenuatory",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1831, John Wilson Croker, notes in The Life of Samuel Johnson (by James Boswell)",
          "text": "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."
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        "Tending to extenuate or palliate."
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          "extenuate",
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          "palliate",
          "palliate"
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      "ipa": "/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɛksˈtɛnjuəˌtɔɹi/"
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  "word": "extenuatory"
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  "etymology_text": "Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).",
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    {
      "form": "more extenuatory",
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    {
      "form": "most extenuatory",
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        "Tending to extenuate or palliate."
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          "palliate"
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      "ipa": "/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/"
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  "word": "extenuatory"
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