Meanings
comparative more exceptless · superlative most exceptless
- obsoleterareThat makes no exception; universal, unexcepting.
my general and exceptless rashness
c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)2 more examples
17 February 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the impeachment of Warren Hastings a general (almost exceptless) confiscation
Let each proud sinner learn himself to know, / Nor be exceptless all the world his foe!
1834, Charles Frederick Bennett, Donjon, Prospect and Reflection, London, page 72
Origin
From except (“to leave out”) + -less, a rather unexpected formation as -less is usually attached to nouns.
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