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states of exception

states of exception is the plural of state of exception.

Meaning of state of exception

Noun

state of exception (plural states of exception)

  1. A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.
    • Out of such rhetoric emerged an American state of exception, and with it, the disturbing outlines of inquisitorial behavior.2006, Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism, page 127

Questions about states of exception

What is states of exception the plural of?
States of exception is the plural of state of exception.

Words near states of exception in the dictionary

  1. States General
  2. states of affairs
  3. states of aggregation
  4. states of being
  5. states of emergency
  6. states of exception
  7. states of matter
  8. states of mind
  9. states of motion
  10. states of nature
  11. states of siege

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