a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Without an exception; not admitting of an exception.

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1782.  Burke, Let. Penal Laws, Wks. VI. 274. The bill … is … a renewed act of … indispensable, exceptionless disqualification.

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1854.  Fraser’s Mag., XLIX. 73. It is only in idea that we can realize … such a moment of universal, indiscriminate … exceptionless deification.

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1867.  Macfarren, Harmony, vi. (1876), 215. General, uniform and exceptionless.

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