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preposition. With the exclusion of; other than; but: everyone except me.

conjunction. If it were not for the fact that; only. Often used with that: I would buy the suit, except that it costs too much.

conjunction. Otherwise than: They didn't open their mouths except to complain.

conjunction. Unless: "And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st/Except it be to pray against thy foes” ( Shakespeare).

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

verb-intransitive. To object: Counsel excepted to the court's ruling.

idiom. except for Were it not for: I would join you except for my cold.

v. To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

v. To take exception, to object (to or against).

preposition. With the exception of; but.

conjunction. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

conjunction. Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

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

v. To object to; to protest against.

verb-intransitive. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against.

preposition. With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

conjunction. Unless; if it be not so that.

To take or leave out of consideration; exclude from a statement or category, as one or more of a number, or some particular or detail; omit or withhold: as, to except a few from a general condemnation.

To object; take exception: now usually followed by to, but formerly sometimes by against: as, to except to a witness or to his testimony.

Being excepted or left out; with the exception of; excepting: usually equivalent to but, but more emphatic.

Excepting; if it be not that; unless.

v. take exception to

v. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

"True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life."

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