exceptless

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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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!

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