exclusion

Noun

Meaning

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.

The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.

Thing emitted.

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. George Eliot

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely. Alan Turing

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. Alberto Manguel

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup. Anne Brontë

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. Eric Cantona

The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another. Latin Proverb

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