Definition of "exception" []

• The act of excepting or the condition of being excepted; exclusion. (noun)
• One that is excepted, especially a case that does not conform to a rule or generalization. (noun)
• An objection or a criticism: opinions that are open to exception. (noun)
• Law A formal objection taken in the course of an action or a proceeding. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception - #318"
• "[Sidenote: Necessity creates an exception, and the Revolution a case of necessity, the utmost extent of the demand of the Commons.] "My Lords, the concessions" (the concessions of Sacheverell's counsel) "are these: That _necessity_ creates an _exception_ to the general rule of submission to the prince; that such exception is understood or implied in the laws that require such submission; and that _the case of the Revolution was a case of necessity."
• "The main exception is that it might be more natural for superheroes to use first names in a private conversation."