Excusatory
11excusatory — ex•cus•a•to•ry [[t]ɪkˈskyu zəˌtɔr i, ˌtoʊr i[/t]] adj. serving or intended to excuse • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME < ML …
12excusatory — /əkˈskjuzətri/ (say uhk skyoohzuhtree), /ɛk / (say ek ), / təri/ (say tuhree) adjective serving or intended to excuse …
13excusatory — adjective offering or expressing apology an apologetic note an apologetic manner • Syn: ↑apologetic • Ant: ↑unapologetic (for: ↑apologetic) …
14Excommunication — • Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …
15palliative — I (abating) adjective allaying, alleviating, alleviative, assuaging, assuasive, beneficial, calmative, consolatory, corrective, curative, easeful, helpful, lenient, drudge, mitigating, mitigative, modifying, modulatory, mollifying, pacifying,… …
16apologetic — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, conscience stricken, contrite, defense, excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble, humbled,… …
17extenuating — Synonyms and related words: altering, apologetic, assuasive, bounding, diminishing, excusatory, excusing, extenuative, extenuatory, justificatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory,… …
18mitigating — Synonyms and related words: abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, bounding, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening,… …
19palliative — Synonyms and related words: alleviating, alleviative, alleviator, allowance, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cleansing, color,… …
20refuting — Synonyms and related words: apologetic, confounding, confutative, confuting, contradictory, contrary, excusatory, excusing, extenuating, extenuative, justificatory, justifying, palliative, refutative, refutatory, rehabilitative, vindicative,… …
