Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being exceptional, or of constituting an exception.
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- noun uncountable The
quality of beingexceptional . - noun countable A
thing ,condition , or othermatter which is exceptional.
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Examples
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A "can do" - attitude, and our sense of fun, distinguishes the American "exceptionality" -.
Auto Bailout 2009
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For once, I had hoped that his exceptionality was a perk, protecting his innocence and preserving his heart.
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For once, I had hoped that his exceptionality was a perk, protecting his innocence and preserving his heart.
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The exceptionality is the format of the show where zones from across the country and NRI's will compete on one platform for the title.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Here, he looks away from the importance of that heterosexual "non-risk" group which, through its very "exceptionality," might provide significant clues to the origin of AIDS.
An Exchange on AIDS Rechy, John 1983
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Viewing the Catholic priest not as the servant of the servants of God but as someone superior to the ordinary believer leads to the kind of exceptionality that has allowed spiritually deformed priests to commit the acts that have imperiled the credibility of the very institution they say they serve.
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Viewing the Catholic priest not as the servant of the servants of God but as someone superior to the ordinary believer leads to the kind of exceptionality that has allowed spiritually deformed priests to commit the acts that have imperiled the credibility of the very institution they say they serve.
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By using motion capture technology, the artist and producer have been able to make a 3-D representation of 'real life' which allows them to focus on the 'exceptionality' of disabled people and their essential humanity.
Media Newswire 2009
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That it has not happened insofar as the United States is concerned testifies to Americans' generally ahistorical approach to problems reinforced by a deeply ingrained sense of American exceptionality and superiority.
Michael Brenner: COIN Classic, New COIN, Post-Modern COIN Michael Brenner 2011
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Robertson has a point insofar as the insistence on the exceptionality of the Bush regime at least in part reflects a desire to believe in the general goodness of America.
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