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English
Etymology
From exception + -er.
Noun
exceptioner (plural exceptioners)
- (chiefly Early Modern, archaic) One who takes exception or protests.
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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