exceptless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From except (“to leave out”) + -less, a rather unexpected formation as -less is usually attached to nouns.
Adjective[edit]
exceptless (comparative more exceptless, superlative most exceptless)
- (obsolete, rare) That makes no exception; universal, unexcepting.
- c. 1605–1608, 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):
- my general and exceptless rashness
- 17 February 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the impeachment of Warren Hastings
- a general (almost exceptless) confiscation
- 1834, Charles Frederick Bennett, Donjon, Prospect and Reflection, London, page 72:
- Let each proud sinner learn himself to know, / Nor be exceptless all the world his foe!
References[edit]
- “exceptless, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
