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A deliberate act of omission
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exclusion
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Wikipedia
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Exclusion may refer to: Expulsion (academia) , exclusion from school or college Social exclusion , personal exclusion, as an outcast Exclusion Bill , 17th century attempt to ensure a Protestant succession in England Diagnosis of exclusion , medical diagnosis ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of exclude or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being excluded [ant: inclusion ] the state of being excommunicated [syn: excommunication , censure ] a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception , elision ] the act of forcing ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Latin exclusionem (nominative exclusio ) "a shutting out," noun of action from past participle stem of excludere "keep out, shut out" (see exclude ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exclusion \Ex*clu"sion\, n. [L. exclusio: cf. F. exclusion. See Exclude .] The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES exclusion zone ▪ the military exclusion zone social exclusion ▪ efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE general ▪ A general exclusion clause which excludes liability altogether ...
Usage examples of exclusion.
The principle, applicable to both federal and State courts, that the Court first assuming jurisdiction over property may maintain and exercise that jurisdiction to the exclusion of the other, was held not to be confined to cases where the property has actually been seized under judicial process, but applies as well to suits brought for marshalling assets, administering trusts, or liquidating estates and to suits of a similar nature, where to give effect to its jurisdiction the Court must control the property.
In 1961 certain obscure events associated with religiosity resulted in the overthrow of one culture, the establishment of a much wider series of cultures holding similar tenets, and the exclusion of yet other groups which resulted in a polarization among this most intelligent species, one which has yet to be fully explained.
Germany possessed a deadly, delusional logic--the logic inherent in theories of scapegoating, racial exclusion, race purity, and cultural pollution.
He is studying Summoning Power and Ritual to the exclusion of all else.
Geza Vermes states explicitly that it was Onias IV who founded the Egyptian temple, thus maintaining the exclusion of this temple from serious academic consideration.
Maupassant takes rank among the leaders, altho the sphere in which he observed had its marked limitations and its obvious exclusions.
Isle of Crete, his exclusion from the throne was compensated by the royal title and the provinces beyond the Hellespont.
Was I, alone of all mankind, to be doomed to perpetual exclusion from the society which, as it seemed to me, was all that rendered existence worth the trouble and fatigue of slavery to the vulgar need of supplying the waste of the system and working at the task of respiration like the daughters of Danaus,--toiling day and night as the worn-out sailor labors at the pump of his sinking vessel?
He asked her if she was thinking of the exclusion of women from ritual dances and she denied this with such vehemence that it was clear the question had caught her on the raw.
As for what they call us, they do use human, of course, but they have also taken to using the new Demosthenian Hierarchy of Exclusion.
Ordered: By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date until further order, and directs that the respective railroad companies, their officers and servants, shall hold themselves in readiness for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war as may be ordered by the military authorities, to the exclusion of all other business.
Apostles, which divides liturgical exclusion from social exclusion and describes the penance sinners must do to be brought back within the church.
We do not, however, prescribe these extracts to the exclusion of other well tested remedial agents, but do regard them, especially in the more confirmed and obstinate cases, as among our most positive curative agents.
Millington swore to get Filmer somehow, anyhow, in the future, and had made it into a personal vendetta, the pursuit of this one villain filling his mind to the exclusion of nearly everything else.
So long as Udara was the only state in the High Jagirs with a resident representative of Barents, the Bashir could presumably count on Udaran interests being represented in Valentin to the exclusion of those of the conquered territories.