"exceptioner" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From exception + -er.",
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          "ref": "1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 4:",
          "text": "Thus much (Readers) in favour of the ſofter ſpirited Chriſtian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken.",
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          "ref": "1655, John Owen, Vindiciæ Evangelicæ […], Appendix, “On the Death of Christ, and of Justification […]”, page 32:",
          "text": "[This] interpretation will overbeare with me an hundred moderne exceptioners, if they should deny that a man may be said to have a right unless he himselfe be the immediate subject of the right, as if it were a naturall accident inherent in him […]",
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          "ref": "1688, William Smith, A Future World, in which Mankind Shall Survive their Mortal Durations […], page 138:",
          "text": "But secondly, I answer, that if our Exceptioners mean only, that those rational Faculties do sometimes furnish Men with a greater natural sagacity; […] it must be allowed as true.",
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        "One who takes exception or protests."
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        "(chiefly Early Modern, archaic) One who takes exception or protests."
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  "etymology_text": "From exception + -er.",
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          "ref": "1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 4:",
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          "ref": "1655, John Owen, Vindiciæ Evangelicæ […], Appendix, “On the Death of Christ, and of Justification […]”, page 32:",
          "text": "[This] interpretation will overbeare with me an hundred moderne exceptioners, if they should deny that a man may be said to have a right unless he himselfe be the immediate subject of the right, as if it were a naturall accident inherent in him […]",
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          "ref": "1688, William Smith, A Future World, in which Mankind Shall Survive their Mortal Durations […], page 138:",
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        "One who takes exception or protests."
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