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2016 film by David Leveaux
The Exception is a 2016 romantic war film directed by David Leveaux (in his directorial debut) and written by Simon Burke, based on Alan Judd's 2003 novel
The_Exception
Topics referred to by the same term
exception, exceptions, or exceptional in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Exception(s), The Exception(s), or exceptional may refer to: The Exception,
Exception
Concept in United States copyright law
right is a general exception that applies to all different kinds of uses with all types of works. In the U.S., fair use right/exception is based on a flexible
Fair_use
2010 single by Paramore
"The Only Exception" is a song by American rock band Paramore. It was released by Fueled by Ramen in February 2010 as the third single from the band's
The_Only_Exception
Religious employment relationships
The ministerial exception, sometimes known as the ecclesiastical exception, is a legal doctrine in the United States barring the application of anti-discrimination
Ministerial_exception
Figure of speech
"The exception that proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning is contested. Henry Watson Fowler's Modern English Usage identifies five ways in which
Exception that proves the rule
Exception_that_proves_the_rule
Programming language construct for special conditions
computing and computer programming, exception handling is the process of responding to the occurrence of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional conditions
Exception_handling
Exception chaining, or exception wrapping, is an object-oriented programming technique of handling exceptions by re-throwing a caught exception after
Exception_chaining
The Exceptions were a German demo group formed in the 1980s. They were early pioneers writing demos for the Atari ST platform. Usually known by the shortened
The_Exceptions
State in which the sovereign may ignore the law in the name of the public good
A state of exception (German: Ausnahmezustand) is a concept introduced in the 1920s by the German philosopher, jurist and later Nazi Party member Carl
State_of_exception
Error that causes a program to abort
In computing, a fatal exception error or fatal error is an error that causes a program to abort (ABEND) and may therefore return the user to the operating
Fatal_exception_error
Restrictions on pro-Palestine speech
The Palestine exception, otherwise known as the Palestine exception to free speech, is a pattern of institutional discrimination and selective enforcement
Palestine_exception
Spanish and Portuguese energy policy
The Iberian exception (IE) is a set of legal measures introduced by the governments of Spain and Portugal to reduce electricity prices for Spanish and
Iberian_exception
Style of business management
Management by exception (MBE) is a style of business management that focuses on identifying and handling cases that deviate from the norm, recommended
Management_by_exception
State of code working correctly when exceptions are thrown
Exception safety is the state of code working correctly when exceptions are thrown. To aid in ensuring exception safety, C++ standard library developers
Exception_safety
Political concept
Cultural exception (French: l'exception culturelle) is a political concept introduced by France in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations
Cultural_exception
Government's right to temporarily suspend constitutional rights
The State of Exception is a right established in the Constitution of El Salvador. This legal framework enables the government to temporarily suspend certain
State of Exception in El Salvador
State_of_Exception_in_El_Salvador
Short play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht
The Exception and the Rule (German: Die Ausnahme und die Regel) is a short play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and is one of several Lehrstücke (Teaching
The_Exception_and_the_Rule
National Basketball Association payment cap
agreement (CBA). This limit is subject to a complex system of rules and exceptions and is calculated as a percentage of the league's revenue from the previous
NBA_salary_cap
1937 film
There Are Exceptions (Hungarian: Tisztelet a kivételnek) is a 1937 Hungarian romantic drama film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Imre Ráday, Klári
There_Are_Exceptions
Informal fallacy of generalization
An overwhelming exception is an informal fallacy of generalization. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications
Overwhelming_exception
Topics referred to by the same term
Destroying the exception may refer to: Accident (fallacy), fallacy when an exception to a rule of thumb is ignored Converse accident, fallacy when a rule
Destroying_the_exception
1997 Canadian-German film by David Winning
Exception To The Rule is a 1997 Canadian-German erotic thriller film directed by David Winning and stars Kim Cattrall, Eric McCormack, Sean Young and
Exception_to_the_Rule
Value indicating that a referenced dataset is invalid or doesn't exist
NullPointerException class. Unlike Java, where java.lang.NullPointerException extends java.lang.RuntimeException, Poco::NullPointerException instead extends
Null_pointer
Keywords provided by a programming language
Exception handling syntax is the set of keywords and/or structures provided by a computer programming language to allow exception handling, which separates
Exception_handling_syntax
Doctrine in American criminal law
In United States criminal law, the border search exception is a doctrine that allows searches and seizures at international borders and their functional
Border_search_exception
Type of computer hardware error
A machine check exception (MCE) is a type of computer error that occurs when a problem involving the computer's hardware is detected. With most mass-market
Machine-check_exception
Automated exception handling is a computing term referring to the computerized handling of errors. Runtime systems (engines) such as those for the Java
Automated_exception_handling
1971 International Court of Justice opinion
The Namibia exception identifies the advisory opinion issued on 21 June 1971 by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ
Namibia_exception
U.S hearsay rule
The business records exception to the U.S. hearsay rule is based on Rule 803(6) of the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE). It is sometimes referred to as
Business_records_exception
systems employ some specific exception handling mechanisms. Microsoft Structured Exception Handling is the native exception handling mechanism for Windows
Microsoft-specific exception handling mechanisms
Microsoft-specific_exception_handling_mechanisms
Extradition proviso
A political offence exception (or exemption) is a provision which limits the obligation of a sovereign state under an extradition or mutual legal assistance
Political_offence_exception
exception clause from both the federal and state constitutions. As of February 2026, eight states had joined Rhode Island in repealing the exception clause
Penal_exception_clause
Notification given by U.S. police to criminal suspects on their rights while in custody
within an exception to the Miranda rule. The three exceptions are: the routine booking question exception the jail house informant exception the public
Miranda_warning
Free-software license
over other non-copyleft licenses. If the Apache License with the LLVM exception[clarification needed] is used, then it is compatible with GPLv2. In October
Apache_License
Maine local news
The Exception Magazine is an online news magazine that covers Maine.[failed verification] It is headquartered in Portland, Maine. The Exception Magazine
The_Exception_Magazine
Set of rules defining correctly structured C++ program
catch (const exception& e) { // To catch any other standard library exceptions (they derive from std::exception) std::println(stderr, "Exception thrown: {}"
C++_syntax
Italian philosopher (born 1942)
publications include Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995), State of Exception (2003), The Kingdom and the Glory (2007), and The Use of Bodies (2014)
Giorgio_Agamben
Exception to the Fourth Amendment
The "special needs" exception is an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s general requirement that government searches be supported by a warrant and probable
Special_needs_exception
2019 video game
Exception is a 2.5D side-scrolling platform game developed and published by American studio Traxmaster Software. The game was released for Microsoft Windows
Exception_(video_game)
Computer programming concept
programming, several programming language mechanisms exist for exception handling. The term exception is typically used to denote a data structure storing information
Exception handling (programming)
Exception_handling_(programming)
popularly elected at the federal, state and local levels, with the major exception being the president, who is instead elected indirectly by the people through
Politics_of_the_United_States
2025 United States Supreme Court case
upheld that dismissal, holding that the FTCA's "discretionary-function exception", as well as the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, prevents Martin and
Martin_v._United_States
The Exception to the Rulers is a 2004 non-fiction book co-authored by American liberal journalists Amy and David Goodman. It reached number 12 in the
The_Exception_to_the_Rulers
Computer architecture hardware algorithm
be exceptions for which not enough status information about an exception is available, in which case the processor may raise a special exception, called
Tomasulo's_algorithm
In property law, the phrase exception in deed refers to a statement in a deed of real estate which reserves certain rights to the transferor (for example
Exception_in_deed
License exception of GNU General Public License
A GPL linking exception modifies the GNU General Public License (GPL) in a way that enables software projects which provide library code to be "linked
GPL_linking_exception
Science fiction horror anime series
Exception (stylized as e∞ception) is a science fiction horror original net animation (ONA) series based on an original story by Hirotaka Adachi with character
Exception_(TV_series)
United States legal concept concerning employment of individuals
century, many states modified the rule by adding an increasing number of exceptions, or by changing the default expectations in the employment contract altogether
At-will_employment
Fatal system error screen
contains the code of the error and its symbolic name (e.g. 0x0000001E (KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)) along with four error-dependent values in parentheses that
Blue_screen_of_death
Chinese fashion designer (born 1971)
Changchun, China) is a Chinese fashion designer. She has two clothing labels: EXCEPTION de Mixmind, a ready-to-wear line started in 1996 and retailed in China;
Ma_Ke_(fashion_designer)
United States legal doctrine
United States constitutional law and criminal procedure, the good-faith exception (also good-faith doctrine) is one of the limitations on the exclusionary
Good-faith_exception
US warrant requirement exception
The motor vehicle exception is a legal rule in the United States that modifies the normal warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States
Motor_vehicle_exception
Optional clause for the GNU General Public License
The GPL font exception clause (or GPL+FE, for short) is an optional clause that can be added to the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) permitting digital
GPL_font_exception
Formal IT practice
allows for normal operation, detecting changes of state and escalating exception events and other priorities. An event can be defined as any detectable
Event_management_(ITIL)
Open-source TLS and cryptography library
General Public License without an exception, which led some GPL-licensed projects either to add an explicit OpenSSL exception or to use alternative TLS libraries
OpenSSL
Form of inter-process communication in computer systems
to the current process. Exceptions such as division by zero, segmentation violation (SIGSEGV), and floating point exception (SIGFPE) will cause a core
Signal_(IPC)
1930 U.S. law which raised import duties
the ports of the United States" with a specific exception known as the "consumptive demand exception", which allowed forced labor-based imports of goods
Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act
2006 single by Ana Johnsson
"Exception" is a pop rock song recorded by the Swedish pop/rock music singer Ana Johnsson. The song was released as second single from her second studio
Exception_(song)
1967 single by David Houston
"With One Exception" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton, and recorded by American country music artist David Houston. It was released
With_One_Exception
IEEE standard for floating-point arithmetic
other operations (such as trigonometric functions) on arithmetic formats exception handling: indications of exceptional conditions (such as division by zero
IEEE_754
Computer fault caused by access to restricted memory
Microsoft Windows, the offending process receives a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception. The conditions under which segmentation violations occur and how they
Segmentation_fault
Employers, Inc., 460 U.S. 204 (1983). "The limit on the Market Participant Exception is that it allows a State to impose burdens on commerce within the market
Market_participant
Exception on x86 that causes a reboot
special kind of exception generated by the CPU when an exception occurs while the CPU is trying to invoke the double fault exception handler, which itself
Triple_fault
Copyright law
Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without
Limitations and exceptions to copyright
Limitations_and_exceptions_to_copyright
U.S. constitutional law preventing repeated punishment for the same crime
prosecutor or judge caused the error that forms the basis of the motion. An exception exists, however, where the prosecutor or judge has acted in bad faith
Double_Jeopardy_Clause
Concept in copyright law
an employment relationship or, in some cases, a commission. It is an exception to the general rule that the person who actually creates a work is the
Work_for_hire
List of Android operating system versions
version released to the public between August and October. The most recent exception has been Android 16 with its release in June 2025. The development of
Android_version_history
Animals with embryonic bilateral symmetry
most notable exception is the echinoderms, which have pentaradial symmetry as adults, but bilateral symmetry as embryos. With few exceptions, bilaterian
Bilateria
Type of court order
conducted in the course of a criminal investigation. The laws usually make an exception for hot pursuit: a police officer following a criminal who has fled the
Search_warrant
1880, the ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was seven. The ages of consent were raised across
Age of consent in the United States
Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States
Object-oriented programming language
runtime exceptions are prevented from occurring, by issuing compile-time errors. If Java prevented all runtime type errors (ClassCastExceptions) from occurring
Java_(programming_language)
Letter of the Cyrillic script
И и) is a letter used in almost all modern Cyrillic alphabets with the exception of Belarusian, where it is replaced by І. It commonly represents either
I_(Cyrillic)
Australian actor (born 15 March 1986)
the Hollywood films I, Frankenstein (2014), Unbroken (2014), and The Exception (2016), the Australian films Felony (2014), The Water Diviner (2014),
Jai_Courtney
Season of television series
votes to eliminate Soni Malaj: Arissa Rexho Pandi Laço: Exception Alban Skënderaj: Exception Altuna Sejdiu: Arissa Rexho With the acts in the bottom two
X Factor (Albanian TV series) season 3
X_Factor_(Albanian_TV_series)_season_3
Failing to report details of an error
hiding (or error swallowing) is the practice of catching an error or exception, and then continuing without logging, processing, or reporting the error
Error_hiding
Governmental subdivision in France
has assumed the role of chief executive of the department. There is an exception in Paris in the Île-de-France region and its three surrounding departments
Prefectures_in_France
Value for unrepresentable data
operations on a signaling NaN (sNaN) signal the invalid-operation exception; the default exception action is then the same as for qNaN operands and they produce
NaN
General-purpose programming language
the ABC programming language, which was inspired by SETL, capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. Python implementation
Python_(programming_language)
First-level administrative divisions of Italy
Italy, each region is an autonomous entity with defined powers. With the exception of the Aosta Valley (since 1945) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (since 2015)
Regions_of_Italy
Information control procedure
countries such as Australia, Canada, England, Netherlands and Wales as an exception to the standard consent process. Despite this, there are very limited
Therapeutic_privilege
Internet slang regarding pornography
August 13, 2003 webcomic captioned, "Rule #34 There is porn of it. No exceptions." The comic was drawn by TangoStari (Peter Morley-Souter) to depict his
Rule_34
Default path without errors or exceptions
flow and exception flow may also be documented. Happy path test is a well-defined test case using known input, which executes without exception and produces
Happy_path
American actress (born 1959)
2000s, she has predominantly appeared in independent projects, with the exception of The Young and the Restless (2010–2011) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Sean_Young
1791 amendment prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures
search and seizure activities, but the Court has carved out a series of exceptions for consent searches, motor vehicle searches, evidence in plain view,
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Works outside the scope of copyright law
including for example uses of works in copyright permitted by copyright exceptions. Such a definition regards work in copyright as private property subject
Public_domain
Permissive provision in copyright laws
copyright against the creators and distributors of such images. It is an exception to the normal rule that the copyright owner has the exclusive right to
Freedom_of_panorama
Language for controlling a computer
the exception occurred. This can trigger a repeat of the exception, unless the exception handler is able to modify values to prevent the exception from
Programming_language
The flag of Mali is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in reverse order. The current flag was adopted on
Flag_of_Mali
2019 United States Supreme Court case
(TVA)'s sue-and-be-sued clause is not subject to a discretionary function exception of the kind in the Federal Tort Claims Act. The Tennessee Valley Authority
Thacker_v._TVA
Series of Honda sport bikes
1983. They were among the earliest all-enclosed motorcycles. With the exception of the single-cylinder CBR125R, CBR150R, CBR250R, and CBR300R, all CBR
Honda_CBR_series
Legal ages for sexual activities in Europe
unrestricted age of consent higher than 16. Some countries have close-in-age exceptions, allowing partners close in age of whom one or both may be below the standard
Age_of_consent_in_Europe
holidays in Italy are established by the Italian parliament and, with the exception of city or community patronal days, apply nationwide. These include a
Public_holidays_in_Italy
Topics referred to by the same term
State of Exception may mean: State of exception, a legal theory about transcending the rule of law for the public good State of Exception (2005), a book
State of exception (disambiguation)
State_of_exception_(disambiguation)
Highway system of the United States of America
south, though the grid guidelines are not rigidly followed, and many exceptions exist. Major north–south routes generally have numbers ending in "1",
United States Numbered Highway System
United_States_Numbered_Highway_System
Legal doctrine for police searches in the United States
In the United States, the plain view doctrine is an exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement that allows an officer to seize evidence and
Plain_view_doctrine
American psychedelic rock band
originally formed in Rockford, Illinois in 1962 as Kal David and the Exceptions. Its members were Kal David (b. David Raskin - vocals and guitar), Peter
Aorta_(band)
Held annually from 1875 to 1897, with the exception of 1884
Meeting for Bible Study") was held annually from 1875 to 1897, with the exception of 1884. The Conference was founded as the Believers' Meeting for Bible
Niagara_Bible_Conference
Class of arthropods
on land. However, some inhabit freshwater environments and, with the exception of the pelagic zone, marine environments as well. They comprise over 110
Arachnid
One-way software control-flow statement
situations, specialized exception handling constructs were added, such as try-catch-finally in Java. The throw-catch exception handling mechanisms can
Goto
EXCEPTION
EXCEPTION
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æ{dh}elstÄn ‘noble stone’, ÆlfstÄn ‘elf stone’, EaldstÄn ‘old stone’, or EalhstÄn ‘altar stone’.English : habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Scandinavian personal name Halfdan, these place names all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tÅ«n ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.English : In 1682 John Alston of Hammersmith, Middlesex, England, began a seven-year apprenticeship to James Jones, merchant, of Charleston, SC. He had many prominent descendants, among whom the name is often spelled Allston.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for the buyer of provisions for a large household, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French acatour (Late Latin acceptator, an agent derivative of acceptare ‘to accept’). Modern English caterer results from the addition of a second agent suffix to the word.Slovenian (ÄŒater) : status name for a person who read out the Slovenian ceremonial text at the installation of the Carantanian rulers and, later, Carinthian dukes, derived from the dialect verb Äatiti ‘to read’. Carantania was the early medieval Slovenian state on the territory of present-day Carinthia and Styria, now divided between Austria and Slovenia. The people’s installation of the Carantanian rulers was an exceptional example of democratic elections in medieval Europe. Thomas Jefferson knew about it and was influenced by it in his thinking about American Independence.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Köter (see Koetter).
Boy/Male
Celtic American Gaelic Greek Irish Scottish Shakespearean
Exceptionally strong.
Surname or Lastname
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
Girl/Female
Greek
Exceptional.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : nickname for a fair-haired person, from Gaelic bà n ‘white’, ‘fair’. This is a common name in the Highlands, first recorded in Perth in 1324.Northern English : nickname meaning ‘bone’, probably bestowed on an exceptionally tall, lean man, from Old English bÄn ‘bone’. In northern Middle English -Ä- was preserved, whereas in southern dialects (which later became standard), it was changed to -Å-.Northern English : nickname for a hospitable person, from northern Middle English beyn, bayn ‘welcoming’, ‘friendly’ (Old Norse beinn ‘straight’, ‘direct’).English and French : metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a public bath house, from Middle English, Old French baine ‘bath’.French : topographic name for someone who lived by a Roman bath, from Old French baine ‘bath’ or a habitational name from a place in Ille-et-Vilaine, named with this word.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Behn.George Luke Scobie Bain (1836–91) was born in Stirling, Scotland. He ran away to sea and successively lived and worked in Portland, ME, Chicago, and St. Louis, where he was a miller and flour merchant and a very prominent citizen.
Girl/Female
Greek
Highest. Exceptional.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire) : from Old English strēaw, hence a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in straw, or a nickname for an exceptionally thin man or someone with straw-colored hair.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Exceptionally new
Girl/Female
German Latin
Gray; gray-haired. Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio used the name for an exceptionally patient...
Girl/Female
Tamil
Exceptional
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname denoting someone with very white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Old English snÄw ‘snow’.Americanized and shortened form of any of the Jewish ornamental names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from a double diminutive of Codd.English (Yorkshire) : from Old French ceur de lion ‘lion heart’, applied as a nickname for a brave man, or ironically for an exceptionally timorous one.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived in or by a house, probably the occupier of the most distinguished house in the village, from a southern derivative of Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’.Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset Co., MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the U.S. Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a U.S. senator, and secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Civil War.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for a person who could read and write, at a time when education was the exception rather than the rule.English and Scottish : According to Reaney, a local name from Old Norse skáli ‘hut’ + erg ‘shieling’.
Boy/Male
Indian
Exceptional
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English blowe, blaa, bloo ‘pale’, hence a nickname for someone with an exceptionally pale complexion.Americanized spelling of French Bleau.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Exceptional
Boy/Male
Celtic
Exceptionally strong.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Sussex)
English (mainly Sussex) : from Middle English schulder ‘shoulder’; a nickname for someone with exceptionally broad shoulders or some deformity or other peculiarity of the shoulders.Americanized form of Slovenian Šolar (see Sholar).
EXCEPTION
EXCEPTION
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : from Old English teart ‘sharp’, ‘rough’, used as a nickname and sometimes a personal name.Americanized spelling of French Tarte.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord of Wisdom
Boy/Male
Tamil
Chidarth | சீதாரà¯à®¤
Girl/Female
Indian
Sapling, Newborn
Girl/Female
Australian, Biblical, Danish, French, German, Greek, Latin, Swedish
Youth; The Sixth Month of the Year; Vital Force
Boy/Male
Irish
Dark stranger.
Girl/Female
Australian, Hawaiian, Hebrew
Peace
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
King of Mountain
Girl/Female
Hindu
By birth u r so talented and intelligent what ever u think about u will be succeeded
Girl/Female
Tamil
Kavyashree | காவà¯à®¯à®·à¯à®°à¯€Â
Poetry having good characters, Poetry in motion
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EXCEPTION
n.
One who takes exceptions or makes objections.
a.
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
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.
n.
An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
n.
A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208.
a.
A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
n.
Exception; reservation.
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.
a.
Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
n.
The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.
adv.
In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
participle
With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
a.
Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character.
n.
An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.
a.
Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms.
a.
Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception.
a.
Without exception.
a.
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
adv.
Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.
a.
Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.