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Definition of Extenuator
1. n. One who extenuates.
Definition of Extenuator
1. Noun. One who extenuates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extenuator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extenuator
Literary usage of Extenuator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1856)
"But neither should it turn extenuator or apologist when atrocious deeds are doing;
and it owes it to that moral sensibility which is as important as truth, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq.: Including a History of the by James Boaden (1825)
"... of there- cords remain under his own hand,) a most unsparing censor of his
own failings ; an indulgent and benevolent extenuator of those in other men. ..."
3. Literary Emporium (1846)
"... it is the check of enthusiasm ; it is the moderator of zeal; but never the
ally of crime, never the patron of evil, .never tile extenuator of injustice. ..."
4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1913)
"... in man's moral nature, in which one seems to interpenetrate oneself in the
form now of criminal, now of accuser, now of extenuator, now of judge. ..."
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