About The Word Exception
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What's The Definition Of Exception?
[n] a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
[n] an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization; "all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the rule" [n] grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond exception" Synonyms | Synonyms for Exception: elision | exclusion Related Terms | Find terms related to Exception: abjuration | abjurement | abnormality | adverse criticism | allowance | amazement | animadversion | anomaly | answer | argument | aspersion | astonishing thing | astonishment | bad notices | bad press | ban | bar | barring | beef | bitch | blockade | blockage | boycott | call into question | captiousness | carping | cavil | caviling | censoriousness | cession | challenge | charter | chucking | chucking out | circumscription | complaint | compunction | concession | condition | contempt | contradiction | conversation piece | counterstatement | criticism | curio | curiosity | debarment | debarring | declination | declining | defense | demarcation | demonstration | demur | demurrer | denial | departure | despisal | despising | diplomatic immunity | disagree with | disapproval | discard | discharge | disclamation | discounting | dismissal | disownment | disregard | embargo | exclusion | exemption | expostulation | extenuating circumstances | faultfinding | flak | franchise | freak | gazingstock | grain of salt | grant | grievance | grievance committee | hairsplitting | hedge | hedging | hit | home thrust | hostile criticism | howl | hypercriticalness | hypercriticism | ignoring | immunity | improbability | imputation | inadmissibility | indignation meeting | injunction | irregularity | kick | knock | legislative immunity | liberty | license | limitation | lockout | march | marvel | marvelment | mental reservation | miracle | modification | museum piece | nagging | narrowing | niggle | niggling | nit | nit-picking | nonacceptance | nonadmission | nonapproval | nonconsideration | nonesuch | nonviolent protest | object to | objection | obloquy | oddity | omission | oppose | overcriticalness | passing by | patent | peculiarity | permission | pestering | pettifogging | phenomenon | picketing | plea | pleading | preclusion | priggishness | privilege | prodigiosity | prodigy | prohibition | protest | protest demonstration | protestation | provision | proviso | putting away | putting out | qualification | qualm | quibble | quibbling | quirk | quite a thing | rally | rap | rarity | rebuff | rebuttal | recantation | reflection | refusal | refutation | rejection | release | relegation | remonstrance | remonstration | renouncement | reply | reproachfulness | repudiation | repulse | reservation | response | restriction | riposte | salvo | scouting | scruple | sensation | sight | sit-in | slam | something else | special case | special demurrer | special pleading | special treatment | specialness | specification | spectacle | spurning | squawk | statement of defense | stipulation | strange thing | stricture | strike | string | stunner | swipe | taboo | take exception to | taking exception | teach-in | term | throwing out | trichoschistism | turning out | waiver | wonder | wonderful thing | wonderment See Also | example | illustration | instance | objection | omission | representative Exception In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*cep"tion\, n. [L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]
1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction
by taking out something which would otherwise be included,
as in a class, statement, rule.
2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person,
thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included;
as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove,
rather than impeach, the just remark. --Cowper.
Note: Often with to.
That proud exception to all nature's laws.
--Pope.
3. (Law) 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. --Burrill.
4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense;
cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
I will never answer what exceptions they can have
against our account [relation]. --Bentley.
He . . . took exception to the place of their
burial. --Bacon.
She takes exceptions at your person. --Shak.
{Bill of exceptions} (Law), a statement of exceptions to the
decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a
cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided
on record so as to bring them before a superior court or
the full bench for review.
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