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exceptionable, a.|ɛkˈsɛpʃənəb(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -able.]
1. That may be excepted against; open to objection. Now chiefly with negative words.
1691Ray Creation i. (1714) 45 As the theory..is built wholly on a false supposition, so is it all along precarious and exceptionable. 1712Addison Spect. No. 279 ⁋5 This Passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole Poem. 1784De Lolme Eng. Const. i. xii. 123 note, The depositions of those witnesses who are adjudged upon trial to be exceptionable, are set aside. 1837J. D. Lang New S. Wales II. 35 The Female Factory at Paramatta has..been under most exceptionable management; insomuch as to have proved an absolute nuisance. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. III. x. 157 The Greek priest led the way..chanting the funeral dirge, in which there was nothing exceptionable.
†b. of persons. Obs.
1754Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xxv. 175 Greville is surely (exceptionable as he is) a better man. 1813Examiner 8 Feb. 88/2 The ladies in that piece, though very exceptionable, are of a stamp far above his Angelica.
¶2. Occasionally misused for exceptional.
1801W. Dupré Fr. Dict. in F. Hall Mod. Eng. (1873) 201 To add an exceptionable article to a law. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 381 A time..in which even fishes..were so rare and exceptionable, that they occupied a scarce appreciable place in Nature. 1874Motley Barneveld ii. xx. 356 The fact that he had not been stretched upon the rack during his trial was complacently mentioned a proof of exceptionable indulgence.
quasi-n.1844Tupper Twins xviii, How silly and harmful a thing is secresy (exceptionables excepted).
Hence exˈceptionableness; exˈceptionably adv.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 336 The..exceptionableness of his division of the duration of the world into seven Ages. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 179, I suspect that the exceptionableness of the subject is that which constitutes the chief merit of the play. |