Exclusion
[ɪk'skluːʒ(ə)n;ek-] or [ɪk'skluʒn]
Definition
(n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
(n.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
(n.) Thing emitted.
Editor: Stanton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Preclusion, rejection.[2]. Prohibition.[3]. Expulsion, ejection.
Inputed by Cleo
Examples
- This in a lower voice, but only as if it were a graver matter; not at all to the exclusion of the person of the house. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But I should pine after my kind; no, not my kind, for love for my species could never fill my heart to the utter exclusion of love for individuals. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You see we have already arrived, by a process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an American. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as--as there may happen to be. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The division of the soul throws a new light on our exclusion of imitation. Plato. The Republic.
- The sudden collapse of the rebellion monopolized attention to the exclusion of almost everything else. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- According to Bacon it is in the process of exclusion that the foundations of true induction are laid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If every thing must have a cause, it follows, that upon the exclusion of other causes we must accept of the object itself or of nothing as causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such a culture so multiplies the same microbe, to the exclusion of others, as to permit it to be easily identified and studied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He sees her, almost to the exclusion of himself, and cannot bear to look upon her cast down from the high place she has graced so well. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He spoke in the singular number, to the express exclusion of Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card-gains. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Edmund did not wonder that such should be his father's feelings, nor could he regret anything but the exclusion of the Grants. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- If she had a son, that son would be the heir, to the exclusion of her cousin Magdalen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Thea