exceptive
Example Sentences
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The circumstance of their greater size, or, indeed, any other discernible difference, cannot here be pleaded as exceptive, without in reality abandoning the principles on which the solution is constructed.
This exceptive compliment to his skill was not so acceptable to the Doctor, whose passion boiled over at the new indignity.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James
Eminent persons among them will nevertheless aim after and attain a purer truth than that which they find established: but such a case must always be rare and exceptive.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William
War, then, huge evil though it be, is, after all, but the exceptive case, a casual misdirection of properties and powers essentially good.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert
The exceptive proposition is merely an affirmative way of stating the exclusive— No not-A is B = All not-A is not-B.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
