exceptioner
English
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Old French excepcion
Anglo-Norman excepciounbor.
Middle English exception
English exception
English exceptioner
Noun
exceptioner (plural exceptioners)
- (chiefly Early Modern, archaic) One who takes exception or protests.
- 1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 4:
- Thus much (Readers) in favour of the ſofter ſpirited Chriſtian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken.
- 1655, John Owen, Vindiciæ Evangelicæ […], Appendix, “On the Death of Christ, and of Justification […]”, page 32:
- [This] interpretation will overbeare with me an hundred moderne exceptioners, if they should deny that a man may be said to have a right unless he himselfe be the immediate subject of the right, as if it were a naturall accident inherent in him […]
- 1688, William Smith, A Future World, in which Mankind Shall Survive their Mortal Durations […], page 138:
- But secondly, I answer, that if our Exceptioners mean only, that those rational Faculties do sometimes furnish Men with a greater natural sagacity; […] it must be allowed as true.
Further reading
- “exceptioner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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