| 释义 |
exceptious, a.|ɛkˈsɛpʃəs|
[f. excepti-on + -ous, after the analogy of captious.]
Disposed to make objections; cavilling, peevish, captious.
1602W. Bas Sword & Buckler B ij, While those things that are done must alwaies lye, As obiects to a nice exceptious eye. 1769Chesterfield Lett. 301 It is the character of Country Ladies to be exceptious, and suspicious of slights. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. (1824) II. vi. 141 He was not exceptious. He gave a cordial welcome to all sorts, provided they were the best in their kind. 1850W. C. Macready in Pollock Remin. II. 353 [Carlyle] was quite in one of his exceptious moods.
Hence exˈceptiousness.
a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. (1687) I. 8 It [admonition] becomes unsavory and odious, and..resembles a froward, malitious, exceptiousness. 1688Collier Several Disc. (1725) 316 The blessed Spirits..are too good to have anything of State or Exceptiousness in them. a1716South Serm. (1744) X. ix. 282 Alarmed by an experience of the baseness..and the exceptiousness of men. 1818in Todd, etc. |