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ex·cept·ing

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–preposition

1.	excluding; barring; saving; with the exception of; except: Excepting the last chapter, the book is finished.

–conjunction

2.	Archaic. except; unless; save.

[Origin: 1540–50; except² + -ing²

]

—Synonyms 1. See except¹.

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ex·cept Audio Help   (ĭk-sěpt') Pronunciation Key
prep.   With the exclusion of; other than; but: everyone except me.

conj.

If it were not for the fact that; only. Often used with that: I would buy the suit, except that it costs too much.
Otherwise than: They didn't open their mouths except to complain.
Unless: "And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st/Except it be to pray against thy foes" (Shakespeare).

v.   ex·cept·ed, ex·cept·ing, ex·cepts

v.   tr.
To leave out; exclude: An admission fee is charged, but children are excepted.

v.   intr.
To object: Counsel excepted to the court's ruling.

[Middle English, from Latin exceptus, past participle of excipere, to exclude : ex-, ex- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

Usage Note: Except in the sense of "with the exclusion of" or "other than" is generally viewed as a preposition, not a conjunction. Therefore, a personal pronoun that follows except should be in the objective case: No one except me knew it. Everyone had a ticket except her.

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ex·cept·ing Audio Help   (ĭk-sěp'tĭng) Pronunciation Key
prep.   With the exception of.

conj.   Except.

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exˈcepting preposition

leaving out or excluding
Example: Those cars are all reliable, excepting the old red one.

Arabic:	باسْتِثْناء، مُسْتَثْنى منه
Chinese (Simplified):	除…之外
Chinese (Traditional):	除…之外
Czech:	kromě
Danish:	med undtagelse af; på nær
Dutch:	behalve
Estonian:	välja arvatud
Finnish:	lukuun ottamatta
French:	sauf
German:	ausgenommen
Greek:	με εξαίρεση
Hungarian:	kivéve
Icelandic:	að frátöldum, *undanskildum
Indonesian:	kecuali
Italian:	eccetto, tranne

Japanese:	～を除いて
Korean:	…을 제외하고
Latvian:	izņemot
Lithuanian:	išskyrus
Norwegian:	bortsett fra, bare ikke
Polish:	wyłączając
Portuguese (Brazil):	salvo
Portuguese (Portugal):	exceptuando, *menos
Romanian:	cu excepţia
Russian:	за исключением
Slovak:	okrem
Slovenian:	razen
Spanish:	excepto, salvo
Swedish:	utom
Turkish:	…-den başka

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Excepting

Ex*cept"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excepting.] [L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. excepter. See Capable.]

1. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

Who never touched The excepted tree. --Milton.

Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. --Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] --Shak.

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Excepting

Ex*cept"\, prep. [Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.] With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. --Milton.

Syn: Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides.

Usage: Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. "I have finished all the letters except one," is more marked than "I have finished all the letters but one." Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. "There is no one here except or but him," means, take him away and there is nobody present. "There is nobody here besides him," means, hi is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. "Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard." In this example, besides should be used, not except.

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