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exceptant

exceptant adjective: making or constituting an exception.

Adjective

exceptant (comparative more exceptant, superlative most exceptant)

  1. (archaic) Making or constituting an exception.

Noun

exceptant (plural exceptants)

  1. (US, archaic) Someone who makes an exception.
    • The exceptions were generally applicable to the items of the account to which they referred, and were not dependent on the particular claims of the individual exceptants.1836, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court

Forms of exceptant

Adjective
comparativemore exceptant
superlativemost exceptant
Noun
pluralexceptants

Questions about exceptant

What does exceptant mean?
Exceptant means making or constituting an exception.
What part of speech is exceptant?
Exceptant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near exceptant in the dictionary

  1. excentricks
  2. excentrics
  3. except
  4. except for
  5. exceptable
  6. exceptant
  7. exceptants
  8. excepted
  9. exceptest
  10. excepting
  11. exceptio metus

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