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exceptless en · ADJ

Etymology

From except (“to leave out”) + -less, a rather unexpected formation as -less is usually attached to nouns.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) That makes no exception; universal, unexcepting.
   • Let each proud sinner learn himself to know, / Nor be exceptless all the world his foe! 1834, Charles Frederick Bennett, Donjon, Prospect and Reflection, London, page 72:
   • 17 February 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the impeachment of Warren Hastings a general (almost exceptless) confiscation
   • my general and exceptless rashness c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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