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exceptioners

exceptioners is the plural of exceptioner.

Meaning of exceptioner

Noun

exceptioner (plural exceptioners)

  1. (Early, Modern, archaic) One who takes exception or protests.
    • Thus much (Readers) in favour of the ſofter ſpirited Chriſtian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken.1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 4

Questions about exceptioners

What is exceptioners the plural of?
Exceptioners is the plural of exceptioner.

Words near exceptioners in the dictionary

  1. exceptionalness
  2. exceptionals
  3. exceptionary
  4. exceptioned
  5. exceptioner
  6. exceptioners
  7. exceptionful
  8. exceptioning
  9. exceptionist
  10. exceptionists
  11. exceptionless

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