Meanings
adjectivesimplificatory (not comparable)
- not comparableServing to simplify.
Abandoning an exaggeratedly simplificatory 'explanation' does not mean (quite the contrary) that one should invoke another, equally simplificatory one […]
1991, Pierre Karli, Animal and Human Aggression, page 16
Origin
From simplify + -c- + -atory, compare simplification.
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