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# exception

«exception» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a thing or person that does not follow the usual rule or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an exception, exceptions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An exception is a thing or person that does not follow the usual rule or pattern. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#m1)

2) If you make an exception, you allow something that is not usually allowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#m2)

3) (formal) To take exception to something is to be offended by it or object to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In grammar and spelling, exceptions break the rule: «i before e except after c» has many exceptions. In maths, «all numbers except 7» means leave 7 out. In everyday life parents may «make an exception» for a birthday. Phrases: with the exception of, without exception, the exception to the rule, make an exception, take exception to.

### examples

- with the exception of the word תהו because it is obvious from "Yezirah," Chap. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x1)
- Everyone came to the party, with the exception of Tom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x2)
- «Children» is an exception to the rule of adding -s for plurals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x3)
- Mum usually says no sweets, but she made an exception today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x4)
- All the pupils, without exception, finished the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x5)
- All even numbers except 2 are not prime — 2 is the exception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x6)
- Most birds can fly; penguins are an exception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x7)
- The headteacher took exception to the rude remark. (formal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x8)
- Bagheera killed right and left as he felt hungry, and so did Mowgli--with one exception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/#x9)

### note

Countable noun. «Except» is the related word meaning «but not». «The exception proves the rule» is a common saying, but it does not mean that exceptions make a rule true. In maths, an exception means one item is left out or behaves differently, so check it separately.

### In the corpora

- [Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fully match their sounds; the National Curriculum lists them for each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/15/)
- [A spelling rule works for most words; a few exceptions are learned on a short list.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/28/)
- [Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» is the exception.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/21/)
- [Most -age words are masculine, but la plage, la page, la cage and l'image are feminine exceptions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/6/)
- [Small animals usually have shorter lives than big ones, though there are exceptions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exception» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exception/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.