exceptive
Example Sentences
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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 Robert Chambers
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 Charles James Lever
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.
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 Robert Chambers
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 St. George William Joseph Stock
