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Informal fallacy of generalization
An overwhelming exception is an informal fallacy of generalization. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications
Overwhelming_exception
Type of informal fallacy
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Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
more important; this also relies on the appeal to emotion fallacy. Overwhelming exception – an accurate generalization that comes with qualifications that
List_of_fallacies
Internet adage about Nazi comparisons
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Godwin's_law
Type of trolling or harassment
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Sealioning
Fallacy regarding hypocrisy
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Tu_quoque
Internet rage incitement technique
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Rage-baiting
Fallacious approach to mislead an audience
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Red_herring
Management attitude for innovation or development
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Not_invented_here
Faulty deductive reasoning due to a logical flaw
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Formal_fallacy
Evidence relying on personal testimony
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Anecdotal_evidence
Exclusive reliance on quantitative observations in decision-making
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McNamara_fallacy
Informal logical fallacy
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No_true_Scotsman
Informal fallacy
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Argument_from_ignorance
Attacking the person rather than their argument
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Ad_hominem
Fallacy of assumption of causation based on sequence of events
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Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Logical fallacy of inconsistency
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False_equivalence
Fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing
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Reification_(fallacy)
Form of incorrect argument and informal fallacy
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Straw_man
Unclear communication
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Obfuscation
Logical fallacy
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Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
Logical fallacy in which the conclusion provides the premise
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Circular_reasoning
Overused, unoriginal phrase or opinion
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Cliché
Fallacy that since an argument contains a logical fallacy, its conclusion must be false
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Argument_from_fallacy
Statistical fallacy
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Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
Question containing an unjustified assumption
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Loaded_question
Type of fallacious argument (logical fallacy)
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Affirming_the_consequent
Fallacy of claiming the majority is always correct
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Argumentum_ad_populum
Rhetorical argument
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Slippery_slope
Fallacy of inferring on the whole from a part
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Fallacy_of_composition
Formal fallacy
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Association_fallacy
Informal fallacy
informal fallacy wherein a person claims an exception to a general or universal principle, but the exception is unjustified. It applies a double standard
Special_pleading
Purported fallacy in explaining good reductively
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Naturalistic_fallacy
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Muhammad_Wang_fallacy
Logical fallacy
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Argument_from_authority
Informal fallacy in comparing actualities with ideals
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Nirvana_fallacy
Distortion or fabrication of feminist arguments
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Straw_feminism
Type of fallacy in modal logic
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Modal_fallacy
Formal fallacy that occurs when a syllogism has four (or more) terms
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Fallacy_of_four_terms
Cognitive bias of experimental subject
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Observer-expectancy_effect
Fallacy of incomplete evidence
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Cherry_picking
Conclusion made on the basis of one or few instances of a phenomenon
effect as "just a coincidence" when it is very likely not. The overwhelming exception is related to the hasty generalization but works from the other
Faulty_generalization
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Denominator_neglect
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Subverted_support
Idea that everyone faces consequence as they deserve
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Just-world_fallacy
Logical fallacy
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Questionable_cause
Idea that a concept is ill-defined, and therefore cannot be discussed
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Loki's_wager
2013 book by Mark Forsyth
at a rally of their own supporters. However, Forsyth notes the overwhelming exception when this device is used in Monty Python's Life of Brian. Questions
The_Elements_of_Eloquence
Rhetorical device or literal parade with grotesque costumes
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Parade_of_horribles
Misleading use of a term with multiple meanings
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Equivocation
Informal logical fallacy
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Argument_from_incredulity
Fallacy in which validity is determined based on novelty
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Appeal_to_novelty
Logical fallacy in syllogisms
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Fallacy_of_exclusive_premises
Fallacy where validity is determined by origin
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Genetic_fallacy
Assumption of a single cause where multiple factors may be necessary
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Fallacy_of_the_single_cause
Psychological defense mechanism
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Rationalization_(psychology)
Assertion without proof
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Ipse_dixit
Distraction technique and anti-debate tactic
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Tone_policing
Apparent, but false, correlation between causally-independent variables
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Spurious_relationship
Informal fallacy involving falsely limited alternatives
distinction can be made rigorous and precise it isn't really a distinction". An exception is John Searle, an analytic philosopher who called it an incorrect assumption
False_dilemma
Logical fallacy
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Fallacy of the undistributed middle
Fallacy_of_the_undistributed_middle
Refutation of a logical fallacy
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Correlation does not imply causation
Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Fallacy in which a word's history defines its meaning
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Etymological_fallacy
Informal fallacy
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I'm_entitled_to_my_opinion
Metaphor originating from goal sports
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Moving_the_goalposts
Formal fallacy about knowledge of objects
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Masked-man_fallacy
Type of logical fallacy
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Bulverism
Informal fallacy that the truth is always a compromise
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Argument_to_moderation
Type of informal fallacy
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Irrelevant_conclusion
Type of formal fallacy
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Appeal_to_probability
Type of informal fallacy
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Poisoning_the_well
Discussion that has continued to the point of nausea
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Ad_nauseam
Logical fallacy
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Appeal_to_consequences
Informal logical fallacy
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Appeal_to_emotion
Fallacy
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Relativist_fallacy
Formal fallacy, aka Linda Problem
formulations, conjunction fallacies continued to occur dominantly, with only few exceptions, when the observed pattern of frequencies resembled a conjunction. In
Conjunction_fallacy
Logical fallacy
The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-07-28. "Gish Gallop: When People Try to Win Debates by Using Overwhelming Nonsense – Effectiviology". Retrieved 2023-07-28.
Specious_reasoning
Logical fallacy in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis of tradition
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Appeal_to_tradition
Attempt to persuade or to determine the truth of a conclusion
conclusion unless additional information indicating that the case is an exception comes in. If Tweety is a penguin, the inference is no longer justified
Argument
Question that has a built-in supposition
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Complex_question
Methods of mind manipulation, often based on logical fallacies
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Propaganda_techniques
Philosophical expression
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Two_wrongs_don't_make_a_right
Mistakenly drawing statistical inference from independent events
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Gambler's_fallacy
Form of incorrect argument in natural language
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Informal_fallacy
Type of uncertainty of meaning where several interpretations are possible
receiver(s) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed. An exception to this could include a politician whose "weasel words" and obfuscation
Ambiguity
Mathematical use of "for all" and "there exists"
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Quantifier_(logic)
Logical fallacy
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Denying_the_antecedent
Bias in the sampling of a population
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Sampling_bias
Argument based on lack of statements
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Argument_from_silence
Informal fallacy
Accident — a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid (where an acceptable exception is ignored) [from general to qualified]. This is taking the usual case
Secundum_quid
Logic founded on unproven premises
to prove anything other than what is already assumed. There are some exceptions wherein it may be considered a formal fallacy, such as in non-reflexive
Begging_the_question
Rhetorical phrase
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The_terrorists_have_won
Informal fallacy and propaganda strategy
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Whataboutism
Questioning the motives of the proposer
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Appeal_to_motive
Fallacy
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Fallacy_of_division
Formal fallacy in statistical interpretation
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Ecological_fallacy
Branch of logic
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Propositional_logic
Deductive fallacy of circularity where the person refuses to believe the argument
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Invincible_ignorance_fallacy
Type of formal fallacy
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Existential_fallacy
Bias towards recently acquired information
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Availability_heuristic
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
Girl/Female
German Latin
Gray; gray-haired. Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio used the name for an exceptionally patient...
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English blowe, blaa, bloo ‘pale’, hence a nickname for someone with an exceptionally pale complexion.Americanized spelling of French Bleau.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname denoting someone with very white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Old English snÄw ‘snow’.Americanized and shortened form of any of the Jewish ornamental names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Guidance; Overwhelming Happiness
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire) : from Old English strēaw, hence a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in straw, or a nickname for an exceptionally thin man or someone with straw-colored hair.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Exceptionally new
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Sussex)
English (mainly Sussex) : from Middle English schulder ‘shoulder’; a nickname for someone with exceptionally broad shoulders or some deformity or other peculiarity of the shoulders.Americanized form of Slovenian Šolar (see Sholar).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Exceptional
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Scottish
Scottish : nickname for a fair-haired person, from Gaelic bà n ‘white’, ‘fair’. This is a common name in the Highlands, first recorded in Perth in 1324.Northern English : nickname meaning ‘bone’, probably bestowed on an exceptionally tall, lean man, from Old English bÄn ‘bone’. In northern Middle English -Ä- was preserved, whereas in southern dialects (which later became standard), it was changed to -Å-.Northern English : nickname for a hospitable person, from northern Middle English beyn, bayn ‘welcoming’, ‘friendly’ (Old Norse beinn ‘straight’, ‘direct’).English and French : metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a public bath house, from Middle English, Old French baine ‘bath’.French : topographic name for someone who lived by a Roman bath, from Old French baine ‘bath’ or a habitational name from a place in Ille-et-Vilaine, named with this word.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Behn.George Luke Scobie Bain (1836–91) was born in Stirling, Scotland. He ran away to sea and successively lived and worked in Portland, ME, Chicago, and St. Louis, where he was a miller and flour merchant and a very prominent citizen.
Boy/Male
Celtic
Exceptionally strong.
Boy/Male
Indian
Exceptional
Boy/Male
Celtic American Gaelic Greek Irish Scottish Shakespearean
Exceptionally strong.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Exceptional
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æ{dh}elstÄn ‘noble stone’, ÆlfstÄn ‘elf stone’, EaldstÄn ‘old stone’, or EalhstÄn ‘altar stone’.English : habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Scandinavian personal name Halfdan, these place names all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tÅ«n ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.English : In 1682 John Alston of Hammersmith, Middlesex, England, began a seven-year apprenticeship to James Jones, merchant, of Charleston, SC. He had many prominent descendants, among whom the name is often spelled Allston.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from a double diminutive of Codd.English (Yorkshire) : from Old French ceur de lion ‘lion heart’, applied as a nickname for a brave man, or ironically for an exceptionally timorous one.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for a person who could read and write, at a time when education was the exception rather than the rule.English and Scottish : According to Reaney, a local name from Old Norse skáli ‘hut’ + erg ‘shieling’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for the buyer of provisions for a large household, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French acatour (Late Latin acceptator, an agent derivative of acceptare ‘to accept’). Modern English caterer results from the addition of a second agent suffix to the word.Slovenian (ÄŒater) : status name for a person who read out the Slovenian ceremonial text at the installation of the Carantanian rulers and, later, Carinthian dukes, derived from the dialect verb Äatiti ‘to read’. Carantania was the early medieval Slovenian state on the territory of present-day Carinthia and Styria, now divided between Austria and Slovenia. The people’s installation of the Carantanian rulers was an exceptional example of democratic elections in medieval Europe. Thomas Jefferson knew about it and was influenced by it in his thinking about American Independence.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Köter (see Koetter).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived in or by a house, probably the occupier of the most distinguished house in the village, from a southern derivative of Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’.Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset Co., MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the U.S. Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a U.S. senator, and secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Civil War.
Surname or Lastname
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Varley or Varleys in Devon, or any of the other places in southwestern England named in Old English as ‘fern clearing’ (see Farley), the change from f to v arising from voicing of f which is characteristic of that area.English : (of Norman origin) habitational name from Verly in Aisne, Picardy, France, so named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Virilius + the locative suffix -acum, or from Vesly (La Manche); surnames of this origin are recorded in Suffolk from the 13th century. However, the overwhelming preponderence of the modern surname is in West Yorkshire.
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
With One Mind
Boy/Male
Arabic, German
Meritorious; Abundant
Girl/Female
African, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Brilliant; Northern Star
Boy/Male
Indian
Ocean.
Girl/Female
British, English, French, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Nice
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Dutch, French, Netherlands, Swedish
Rock; Famous Landowner
Boy/Male
English French
Servant of the priory.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Golden king
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian, Muslim, Pashtun
The Indus River
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Fresh Air
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
OVERWHELMING EXCEPTION
a.
Overpowering; irresistible.
a.
Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception.
a.
Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character.
n.
The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.
n.
The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.
participle
With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
a.
That crushes; overwhelming.
a.
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
n.
One who takes exceptions or makes objections.
n.
That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Overwhelm
n.
The act of overwhelming.
adv.
In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
a.
Without exception.
a.
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
v. t.
Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
a.
Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms.
n.
Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
a.
Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
n.
Exception; reservation.