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  1.  = UNEXCEPTIONABLE a. 1 c.

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1775.  Mme. D’Arblay, Early Diary (1889), II. 10. She bears an unexceptional character.

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1806.  Ann. Rev., IV. 730. We … secretly retain a higher esteem for the stimulant and unusual, than for the quotidian accuracy of regular unexceptional composition.

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1877.  W. S. Gilbert, Foggerty’s Fairy (1892), 62. The duty is extremely light, and the county society unexceptional.

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  2.  Admitting of, subject to, no exception.

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1844.  Kinglake, Eöthen, xxix. Declaring that the orders received from Constantinople were imperative, and unexceptional.

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1883.  Sir H. Cotton, in Law Rep., 24 Chan. Div. 332. I should think that that would, almost as an unexceptional rule, be of the greatest possible advantage to the infant.

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