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Meaning of 'exception'
Meaning of 'exception' (Webster Dictionary)
1. 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. [ 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.
- 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.
- An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Meaning of 'exception' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. exception [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization
- an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization
Example in sentence:
- all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child;
- an exception tests the rule
Meaning (2):
- grounds for adverse criticism
- grounds for adverse criticism
Example in sentence:
- his authority is beyond exception
Meaning (3):
- a deliberate act of omission
- a deliberate act of omission
Example in sentence:
- with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news
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