Definition of exception

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Exception (n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule..

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Saving :: Saving (participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to..
Nonability :: Nonability (n.) An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit..
Altogether :: Altogether (adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.
Exceptive :: Exceptive (a.) That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition..
Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement..
Exceptionless :: Exceptionless (a.) Without exception.
Excipient :: Excipient (v. t.) Taking an exception.
Exceptioner :: Exceptioner (n.) One who takes exceptions or makes objections.
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot..
Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..
Excepting :: Excepting (prep. & conj., but properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except..
Natural :: Natural (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death..
Exceptor :: Exceptor (n.) One who takes exceptions.
Fallency :: Fallency (n.) An exception.
Negation :: Negation (adv.) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has..
Unexceptionable :: Unexceptionable (a.) Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character..
Unexceptive :: Unexceptive (a.) Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception..
Reserve :: Reserve (v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Singular :: Singular (a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments..
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