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Definition of exception : 1. An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
2. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; - usually followed by to or against.
3. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
4. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

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riddance, segregation, repudiation, rarity, omission, expostulation, elimination, rule, custom, protest, protestation, approval, squawk, demur, censure, objection, elision, support, challenge, exclusion, expulsion, ejection, kick, remonstrance, complaint, remonstration, inclusion, excommunication, rejection

dismissal (part of speech: noun)

excuse, license, permission, concession, immunity, waiver, release, discharge, amnesty, pardon, stay, dismissal, exemption, absolution, dispensation, relief, privilege, reprieve, liberty, freedom

unconformity (part of speech: noun)

curiosity, impropriety, idiosyncrasy, incongruity, freakishness, quirkiness, divergence, inconsistency, incompatibility, oddity, strangeness, difference, unfamiliarity, peculiarity, aberrance, nonconformity, derangement, uniqueness, outlandishness, deviation, anomaly, aberration, singularity, uncommonness, irregularity, unconventionality, eccentricity, abnormality, funniness

qualification (part of speech: noun)

limitation, catch, reservation, modification, qualification, provision, condition, proviso, mitigation, allowance, stipulation

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