Definition of exception

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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..

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Bar :: Bar (n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
Common :: Common (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Inimitable :: Inimitable (a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence..
Exempt :: Exempt (a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.
Fallency :: Fallency (n.) An exception.
Excipient :: Excipient (v. t.) Taking an exception.
Saving :: Saving (n.) Exception; reservation.
Aberrant :: Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot..
Altogether :: Altogether (adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.
Geld :: Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate..
Reserve :: Reserve (n.) That which is excepted; exception.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Excepting :: Excepting (prep. & conj., but properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except..
Bating :: Bating (prep.) With the exception of; excepting.
Whole :: Whole (n.) The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself..
Exceptionable :: Exceptionable (a.) Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Exceptionless :: Exceptionless (a.) Without exception.
Salvo :: Salvo (n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
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