exceptive

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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

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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

Waking is an inferior exceptive kind of existence, into which she is dragged by the base exigencies of the world.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

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