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exceptive

exceptive adjective: exceptional, having an exception.

Adjective

exceptive (not comparable)

  1. exceptional, having an exception
    • The only offspring of a race No misalliance did disgrace; Nurtur'd, school'd, fashion'd by their laws, Not wishing an exceptive clause, Till thee, my only choice, I met; And then, with useless, deep regret, I found in birth, and that alone, Thou wert unworthy of a throne!1816, Matilda Betham, The Lay of Marie
    • In 1813, Unitarians were set free from legal penalties by the repeal, so far as they were concerned, of the exceptive clauses of the Toleration Act, this relief coming twenty years after Charles James Fox had tried to secure it for them.1912, W.G. Tarrant, Unitarianism

Origin of exceptive

From except + -ive.

Words formed from exceptive

Questions about exceptive

What does exceptive mean?
Exceptive means exceptional, having an exception.
What part of speech is exceptive?
Exceptive is an adjective.

Words near exceptive in the dictionary

  1. exceptions
  2. exceptions that prove rules
  3. exceptions that prove the rule
  4. exceptious
  5. exceptiousness
  6. exceptive
  7. exceptively
  8. exceptivity
  9. exceptless
  10. exceptor
  11. exceptors

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