English

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Etymology

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From simplify +‎ -c- +‎ -atory, compare simplification.

Adjective

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simplificatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to simplify.
    • 1991, Pierre Karli, Animal and Human Aggression, page 16:
      Abandoning an exaggeratedly simplificatory 'explanation' does not mean (quite the contrary) that one should invoke another, equally simplificatory one []