Exception vs Exceptive - What's the difference?
exception | exceptive |
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
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.
(legal) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
(senseid)An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
(computing) An interruption in normal processing, especially as caused by an error condition.
exceptional, having an exception
* {{quote-book, year=1816, author=Matilda Betham, title=The Lay of Marie, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The only offspring of a race No misalliance did disgrace; Nurtur'd, school'd, fashion'd by their laws, Not wishing an exceptive clause, Till thee, my only choice, I met; And then, with useless, deep regret, I found in birth, and that alone, Thou wert unworthy of a throne! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=W.G. Tarrant, title=Unitarianism, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In 1813, Unitarians were set free from legal penalties by the repeal, so far as they were concerned, of the exceptive clauses of the Toleration Act, this relief coming twenty years after Charles James Fox had tried to secure it for them. }}
As a noun exception
is exception.As an adjective exceptive is
exceptional, having an exception.exception
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* checked exception * exception that proves the rule * take exception * there is an exception to every rule * without exceptionexceptive
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