'Exception' definitions:
Definition of 'exception'
From: WordNet
noun
A deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception, exclusion, elision]
noun
An instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization; "all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the rule"
noun
Grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond exception"
Definition of 'Exception'
From: GCIDE
- Exception \Ex*cep"tion\ ([e^]k*s[e^]p"sh[u^]n), n. [L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]
- 1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Often with to. [1913 Webster]
- That proud exception to all nature's laws. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) 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. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against. [1913 Webster]
- I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation]. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- She takes exceptions at your person. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exception'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnormality,
- adverse criticism,
- allowance,
- amazement,
- animadversion,
- anomaly,
- answer,
- argument,
- aspersion,
- astonishing thing,
- astonishment,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- boycott,
- call into question,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- cession,
- challenge,
- charter,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- circumscription,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- concession,
- condition,
- contempt,
- contradiction,
- conversation piece,
- counterstatement,
- criticism,
- curio,
- curiosity,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- declination,
- declining,
- defense,
- demarcation,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- denial,
- departure,
- despisal,
- despising,
- diplomatic immunity,
- disagree with,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- dismissal,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- embargo,
- exclusion,
- exemption,
- expostulation,
- extenuating circumstances,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- franchise,
- freak,
- gazingstock,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hairsplitting,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- howl,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- ignoring,
- immunity,
- improbability,
- imputation,
- inadmissibility,
- indignation meeting,
- injunction,
- irregularity,
- kick,
- knock,
- legislative immunity,
- liberty,
- license,
- limitation,
- lockout,
- march,
- marvel,
- marvelment,
- mental reservation,
- miracle,
- modification,
- museum piece,
- nagging,
- narrowing,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nonacceptance,
- nonadmission,
- nonapproval,
- nonconsideration,
- nonesuch,
- nonviolent protest,
- object to,
- objection,
- obloquy,
- oddity,
- omission,
- oppose,
- overcriticalness,
- passing by,
- patent,
- peculiarity,
- permission,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- phenomenon,
- picketing,
- plea,
- pleading,
- preclusion,
- priggishness,
- privilege,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- prohibition,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- provision,
- proviso,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- qualification,
- qualm,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- quirk,
- quite a thing,
- rally,
- rap,
- rarity,
- rebuff,
- rebuttal,
- recantation,
- reflection,
- refusal,
- refutation,
- rejection,
- release,
- relegation,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- renouncement,
- reply,
- reproachfulness,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- reservation,
- response,
- restriction,
- riposte,
- salvo,
- scouting,
- scruple,
- sensation,
- sight,
- sit-in,
- slam,
- something else,
- special case,
- special demurrer,
- special pleading,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- spectacle,
- spurning,
- squawk,
- statement of defense,
- stipulation,
- strange thing,
- stricture,
- strike,
- string,
- stunner,
- swipe,
- taboo,
- take exception to,
- taking exception,
- teach-in,
- term,
- throwing out,
- trichoschistism,
- turning out,
- waiver,
- wonder,
- wonderful thing,
- wonderment