exceptioner
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
exceptioner (plural exceptioners)
- (chiefly Early Modern, archaic) One who takes exception or protests.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 140:
- 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[edit]
- “exceptioner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.