Ex-cēp'tion, n.

(ek-sēp'/shun), n. [Lat. exceptio, Fr. exception, Pr. exceptio, Sp. excepcion, It. eccezione.]

1. The act of excepting or excluding from a number designated, or from a description; exclusion. “But write proviso and exception.” Shak.
2. That which is excepted or separated from others in a general rule or description; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.

Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. Cooper.

3. (Law.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trial, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading;—also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill.
4. An objection; cavil; dissent; offense; cause of offense;—especially with to take, and usually followed by against.

She takes exceptions at your person. Shak. Rodrigo, thou hast taken against me an exception. Shak.