Terminology fix: exceptions are raised, except in generator.throw().
diff --git a/Doc/library/doctest.rst b/Doc/library/doctest.rst
index 420c73e..2b7ca7c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/doctest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/doctest.rst
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@
 
 .. exception:: DocTestFailure(test, example, got)
 
-   An exception thrown by :class:`DocTestRunner` to signal that a doctest example's
+   An exception raised by :class:`DocTestRunner` to signal that a doctest example's
    actual output did not match its expected output. The constructor arguments are
    used to initialize the member variables of the same names.
 
@@ -1697,9 +1697,9 @@
 
 .. exception:: UnexpectedException(test, example, exc_info)
 
-   An exception thrown by :class:`DocTestRunner` to signal that a doctest example
-   raised an unexpected exception.  The constructor arguments are used to
-   initialize the member variables of the same names.
+   An exception raised by :class:`DocTestRunner` to signal that a doctest
+   example raised an unexpected exception.  The constructor arguments are used
+   to initialize the member variables of the same names.
 
 :exc:`UnexpectedException` defines the following member variables: