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Exceptive   Listen
adjective
Exceptive  adj.  That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. "A particular and exceptive law."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... an other author remarkable for a facility of embracing incompatibles, contraries, or dubieties, not only condemns as "false syntax" the use of save for an exceptive conjunction. (Sec.587. 28,) but cites approvingly from Latham the following very strange absurdity: "One and the same word, in one and the same sentence, may be a Conjunction or [a] Preposition, as the case ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



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