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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1250|origins=la exceptio}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɪkˈsep.ʃən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English excepcioun, [[bor|xno|excepcioun|t=a formal objection]] (Old French excepcion),^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) from [[la|exceptiō|t=an exception, restriction; an objection]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) a noun of action from the past participle of [[m|la|excipere|t=to take out]] (see [[except]]).^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In law, a defendant's formal objection: about 1250 in the OED, the late 13th century in Anglo-French.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) Leaving something out from a rule is from about 1385 in the OED, the late 14th century in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A reservation or exemption is from about 1400,^(Etymonline) and something that is excepted, a case outside a rule, from 1483.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) ''To take exception'', to object, comes from the Roman legal use of excipere much as a lawyer now says “objection”.^(Etymonline) The maxim that the exception proves the rule (1617) is from law, Latin exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis, “the exception proves the rule in cases not excepted”, said to be from Cicero.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) ''The exception'', something unusual as opposed to the rule, is from 1862.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1250 – a legal objection.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1385 – leaving out.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1483 – a case excepted.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1617 – ''the exception proves the rule''.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1862 – ''the exception'', the unusual case.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Someone or something not included in or not following a general [[rule]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The act of leaving something out; [[exclusion]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(take exception)'' Objection or offence: ''she took exception to his remarks''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(law)'' A formal objection in court.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exceptionless]]

+ * [[exceptionable]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[except]]

+ * [[exceptional]]

+ * [[accept]]

+ * [[receive]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}