exceptive
[ik-sep-tiv]
adjective
being or making an exception.
disposed to take exception; objecting.
Origin of exceptive
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demanding, dire, integral, crucial, precarious, strategic, urgent, vital, pivotal, significant, dangerous, serious, decisive, perilous, risky, acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, censorious, contraryExamples from the Web for exceptive
Historical Examples of exceptive
This exceptive compliment to his skill was not so acceptable to the Doctor, whose passion boiled over at the new indignity.
The O'DonoghueCharles James Lever
Is it not announced as a general maxim, to which there can be no exceptive case, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof?
A Lamp to the PathW. K. Tweedie
exceptive
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