exceptless

English

Etymology

From except (“to leave out”) +‎ -less, a rather unexpected formation as -less is usually attached to nouns.

Adjective

exceptless (comparative more exceptless, superlative most exceptless)

1. (obsolete, rare) That makes no exception; universal, unexcepting.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     my general and exceptless rashness

   • 17 February 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the impeachment of Warren Hastings

     a general (almost exceptless) confiscation

   • 1834, Charles Frederick Bennett, Donjon, Prospect and Reflection, London, page 72:

     Let each proud sinner learn himself to know, / Nor be exceptless all the world his foe!

References

• “exceptless, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.