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exception
noun
    1. Someone or something not included.
    2. Someone or something that does not, or is allowed not to, follow a general rule.
      Example: make an exception
      Thesaurus: irregularity, anomaly, abnormality, deviation, peculiarity, rarity, oddity, quirk, special case, exemption, deviation.
    3. An act of excluding.
Derivative: exceptionable
    Likely to cause disapproval, offence or dislike.
    Open to objection.
Derivative: exceptionably
adverb
    Idiom: take exception to something
      To object to it; to be offended by it.
        Thesaurus: disagree with, object to, differ from, be offended by, resent, take umbrage at.
    Idiom: the exception proves the rule
      The existence of an exception to a supposed rule proves the general truth of the rule (often used in argument when no such conclusion is justified).
    Etymology: 14c.



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