exceptious
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From excepti(on) + -ous, after captious.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]exceptious (comparative more exceptious, superlative most exceptious)
- (obsolete) Apt to take exception, or to object; captious, complaining.
- 1622 (first performance), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The Changeling: […], London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1653, →OCLC, Act II, signature D, verso:
- Tom. So, did you mark the dulness of her parting now?
Alon. What dulness? Thou art so exceptious still.
- 1715, Robert South, “Sermon I. Matth. xiii. 52.”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, page 17:
- And lastly, how shall many seeming Clashings, and dark Passages in Sacred History and Chronology be placed in such a Light, as may throughly satisfy, or at least effectually silence the Doubtful and Exceptious?
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 9, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 68:
- The company, who were not at all exceptious, seemed extremely well pleased with every particular of the entertainment […] .