excusatory

[ ik-skyoo-zuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

/ ɪkˈskyu zəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

serving or intended to excuse.

Origin of excusatory

1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin excūsātōrius, equivalent to Late Latin excūsā(re) to excuse + -tōrius -tory¹

And for once Dorothy dropped her excusatory attitude towards her friend.

Gray youth |Oliver Onions
Of the excusatory causes of this concubinage some are real and some not.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love |Emanuel Swedenborg
One sees a twinge of conscience in the clause in parentheses, as excusatory of themselves to posterity.

Women of America |John Rouse Larus
Turn in, and look at it, for the sight is well worth a cup of excusatory cyder.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb |Charles Lamb

The excusatory causes which are not real are such as are not grounded in what is just, although in the appearance of what is just.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love |Emanuel Swedenborg

excusatory

/ (ɪkˈskjuːzətərɪ, -trɪ) /

tending to or intended to excuse; apologetic