Definition of exception

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Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

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Categorical :: Categorical (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer..
Geld :: Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate..
Spiranthy :: Spirant (n.) A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208..
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..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Universally :: Universally (adv.) In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures..
Aberrant :: Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Unexceptionable :: Unexceptionable (a.) Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
Fallency :: Fallency (n.) An exception.
Common :: Common (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Altogether :: Altogether (adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.
Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement..
Exceptless :: Exceptless (a.) Not exceptional; usual.
Saving :: Saving (a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause..
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..
Reserve :: Reserve (n.) That which is excepted; exception.
Exceptive :: Exceptive (a.) That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition..
Exceptionable :: Exceptionable (a.) Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Unexceptive :: Unexceptive (a.) Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception..
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