Relating to or of the nature of an exception; exceptional or unusual.
From 'exception' + '-ary' suffix (as in contemporary, revolutionary). Created in English to form an adjective describing something related to exceptions.
This suffix '-ary' is incredibly productive in English (military, imaginary, ordinary), yet 'exceptionary' never caught on when 'exceptional' did—linguistic fitness matters even in formal words.
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