Forming or expressing an exception; excluding certain cases from a general rule.
From Latin 'exceptivus,' from 'exceptus.' Describes something that functions to create or indicate an exception.
Linguists call words like 'except,' 'besides,' and 'save' 'exceptive' prepositions because they grammatically mark what's being excluded from a statement.
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