exceptionable

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Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
substratebor.?
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Archaic Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Latin excipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin exceptiōder.
Old French excepcion
Anglo-Norman excepciounbor.
Middle English exception
English exception
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English exceptionable

    From exception + -able.

    Adjective

    exceptionable (comparative more exceptionable, superlative most exceptionable)

    1. Liable to cause disapproval, objection or debate.
      • 1760, Tobias Smollett, Annals of Literature: Volume 36‎[1]:
        The subject however is rendered still more exceptionable by the aukward and ridiculous manner in which it is here treated.

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