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exception
exception is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 23 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- 2noun
That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
- 3noun
An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
- 4noun
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
- 5noun
a deliberate act of omission
"with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
- 6noun
an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization
"all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"
"an exception tests the rule"
- 7noun
grounds for adverse criticism
"his authority is beyond exception"
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