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unexˈceptionable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. To whom, or to which, no exception can be taken; perfectly satisfactory or adequate.
a. Of persons.
1664N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. vi. 276 All which I have said was done in the Presence of unexceptionable Witnesses. 1699T. Baker Refl. Learn. iii. 27 Cicero tho the most unexceptionable [authority] has not escaped their censure. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 48 Not even the Revolution..has been able to furnish us with unexceptionable statesmen. 1796F. Burney Camilla II. 193 She affectionately embraced the unexceptionable Lavinia. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) II. ix. 431 There was now no such unexceptionable rival to oppose to the Norman.
b. Of material things. (Rare before 19th c.)
1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xvi. 301 The blood of Christ..; 'tis unexceptionable blood, being..untainted by sin. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 425 This statue..is in all its parts unexceptionable. 1835Browning Paracelsus v. 455 Fest. This cell? Par. An unexceptionable vault: Good brick and stone. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith 168 Questionable as was the entertainment for the mind, that for the body was unexceptionable.
c. Of character, conduct, style, taste, etc.
1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 359 And the Lives of these Seperatists were as un-exceptionable as any of the Quakers. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 31 His English style is unexceptionable. 1742–3Johnson's Debates (1787) II. 503 The authority of this man, my Lords, cannot indeed be urged as unexceptionable and decisive. 1794S. Williams Vermont 183 The most unexceptionable evidence ought to be produced. 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 126 His taste was unexceptionable, and his judgment was never sullied by prejudice. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. ii. xv. §1. 478 Lending his capital on unexceptionable security. 1884Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 558, I am..of opinion that rule 32 is unexceptionable.
2. Admitting of no exception. rare—1.
1871Ruskin Fors Clav. vii. 9 That being the, alas, almost unexceptionable lot of human creatures.
Hence unexˈceptionaˌbility.
1837Chambers's Jrnl. 8 July 192 Morals of pure unexceptionability. a1849Poe Whipple, etc., Wks. 1864 III. 388, I—with a very partial modification of the imagery..—may elevate the passage into unexceptionability. |