exceptioner

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English

Etymology

From exception +‎ -er.

Noun

exceptioner (plural exceptioners)

  1. (chiefly Early Modern, archaic) One who takes exception or protests.
    • 1641, , “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: ">…] for Thomas Vnderhill, , →OCLC, page 4:
      Thus much (Readers) in favour of the ſofter ſpirited Chriſtian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken.
    • 1655, John Owen, Vindiciæ Evangelicæ , Appendix, “On the Death of Christ, and of Justification ”, page 32:
      interpretation will overbeare with me an hundred moderne exceptioners, if they should deny that a man may be said to have a right unless he himselfe be the immediate subject of the right, as if it were a naturall accident inherent in him
    • 1688, William Smith, A Future World, in which Mankind Shall Survive their Mortal Durations , page 138:
      But secondly, I answer, that if our Exceptioners mean only, that those rational Faculties do sometimes furnish Men with a greater natural sagacity; it must be allowed as true.

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