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51excusatory — a. 1. Apologetical. 2. Vindicative, vindicatory, exculpatory, exonerative …
52explanatory — a. 1. Illustrative, elucidative, expository, serving to explain. 2. Accounting, justifying, justificative, justificatory, warranting, giving reasons, vindicative, vindicatory, tracing to causes or principles …
53apologetic — adj 1. sorry, regretful, remorseful, contrite, in sackcloth and ashes; expiatory, penitential, penitent, repentant; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, rueful, compunctious; self reproachful, self condemnatory, self condemning, self… …
54exculpatory — adj 1. acquitting, compurgatory, exonerative, exonerating, vindicatory, vindicative, vindicating, exculpating; absolutory, absolvent, absolving, forgiving, pardoning, excusatory, excusing, remissive, remitting. 2. clement, lenient, indulgent,… …
55excusatory — adj exculpatory, exonerative, vindicatory, vindicative; apologetic, justificatory; extenuating, mitigating …
56justificatory — adj 1. substantiative, substantiating, supportive, supporting, upholding, sustaining, justificative, justifying; apologetic, extenuatory, extenuating, mitigative, mitigating, palliative, palliating. 2. exculpatory, exculpating, acquitting,… …
57mitigating — adj extenuating, extenuative, extenuatory, palliative, mitigative, mitigatory; exculpatory, exonerative, justifying, justificatory, justificative, excusatory, vindicating, vindicatory, vindicative; qualifying, modifying, tempering …
58vindictive — adj , vengeful, revengeful, avenging, vindicatory, vindicative; retributive, retributory, requiting, retaliatory, retaliative; spiteful, rancorous, venomous, malevolent, malicious, malignant, antagonistic, hostile, resentful, ill disposed;… …
59excusable — [adj] allowable all right, condonable, defensible, exculpatory, explainable, fair, forgivable, justifiable, minor, moderate, not too bad*, okay, pardonable, passable, permissible, plausible, reasonable, remittable, reprievable, slight, specious,… …
60directory part of a statute — The part which directs that which is to be done or not to be done, the other parts being the declaratory and vindicatory portions. 50 Am J1st Stat § 151. The provision of a statute which is directory or permissive, as distinguished from mandatory …
