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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, being, or containing an exception.
  • adjective Archaic Captious; faultfinding.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making or constituting an exception.
  • Disposed to take exception; inclined to object.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective That excepts; including an exception.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective exceptional, having an exception

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