excusatory

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

One sees a twinge of conscience in the clause in parentheses, as excusatory of themselves to posterity.

With such a rectifying or excusatory phrase as "God knows best" one can hazard all.

That this concubinage is not repugnant to conjugial love, follows from what was proved above; that such concubinage, when engaged in from causes legitimate, just, and really excusatory, is not unlawful, n. 467-473.

Substance of a letter excusatory from Mr. Lovelace.