Exception
[ɪk'sepʃ(ə)n;ek-] or [ɪk'sɛpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a deliberate act of omission; 'with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) grounds for adverse criticism; 'his authority is beyond exception'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
(n.) 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.
(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.
(n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Typed by Geoffrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exclusion.[2]. Objection.[3]. Instance to be excepted.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Qualification, separation, exclusion
ANT:Statement, rule, class, proposition
Checked by Joy
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class as an honest man a truthful woman etc. 'The exception proves the rule ' is an expression constantly upon the lips of the ignorant who parrot it from one another with never a thought of its absurdity. In the Latin 'Exceptio probat regulam ' means that the exception tests the rule puts it to the proof not confirms it. The malefactor who drew the meaning from this excellent dictum and substituted a contrary one of his own exerted an evil power which appears to be immortal.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- The only exception I made was Mrs. Woodcourt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I made an exception of you at first. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Well, I am glad at least that she makes an exception in favor of my son, said the old lady. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is curious to note that this law against the imitation of silver, which really dated from the fifteenth century, made a special exception to articles made for the Church. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The one exception was Count Fosco. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With this exception, their good-humour was completely restored; and the evening concluded with the conviviality with which it had begun. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- These photographs, which may be considered the first durable ones that had been obtained, were, with one exception, taken on plates made of pewter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- With the exception of their ornaments all were naked. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The common rule requires submission; and it is only in cases of grievous tyranny and oppression, that the exception can take place. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I think they are, without exception, the most vulgar girls in Highbury. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The English revolution was no exception. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have told you all my past life, with the exception of Melnos, and that I did not think worth while relating. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All the apes had hair upon theirs but the black men were entirely hairless, with very few exceptions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- With some exceptions, presently to be given, I fully admit that this is the rule. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Or must we admit exceptions? Plato. The Republic.
- The exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians, are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. Plato. The Republic.
- She forbears to judge them as a whole, but she has her exceptions whom she admires--Louis and Mr. Hall, and, of late, yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In a rough way and with many exceptions, democracy compels law to approximate human need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- True, holy father, said the knight; but the devil is apt to keep an eye on such exceptions; he goes about, thou knowest, like a roaring lion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yet some striking exceptions there are among us, from the fact that the negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In every case there is the rule and there are the exceptions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The austere system of morality has, accordingly, been adopted by those sects almost constantly, or with very few exceptions; for there have been some. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- One of the exceptions proving the rule may perhaps be met in Edison, though all depends on the point of view. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And even to this are there not exceptions? Plato. The Republic.
- There are a few exceptions, but they are such as can give no interruption to any important branch of inland commerce of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Characters there may be more than human, who are exceptions--God may save a man, but not his own strength. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Verna