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exˈtenuative, a. and n.
[f. extenuate v. + -ive.]
A. adj.
a. Tending to make lean.
b. Tending to extenuate (guilt).
1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick ii. ix. (1639) 85 They have more need of extenuative meates then those that have the Pleurisie. 1827Bentham Ration. Evid. Wks. 1843 VII. 15 Proving the existence of some justificative, or extenuative, or exemptive, circumstance.
B. n.
a. Something serving to extenuate guilt.
b. A medicine producing ‘extenuation’ or emaciation.
a1734North Exam. ii. v. §90 Another Extenuative of the intended Rebellion. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 524 Be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics. |