exclusoryadj.
/ɛkˈskluːsəri/ Having the power or the function of excluding; tending to exclude; = exclusive adj. 1. Const. of.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adjective]
exclusive1515
exclusory1585
exclusionary1849
uninclusive1864
exclusivist1960
exclusivistic1961
1585 Bonner in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 179 To put out the Term peremptory, and other that were exclusory of further disputations.
1654 ‘Palaemon’ Friendship 25 'Twere extreamly tedious to run over all the Vices and shew how they were particularly exclusory of Friendship.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1865 Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 4/5 The exclusory laws were the result of the narrowest and most exasperating religious intolerance.
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