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Definition of except:

(v) : to exclude; to specify as being an exception; to take exception, to object to
"2007: But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews. -- Glen Bowersock, 'Provocateur', London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17"
(preposition) : with the exception of; but
"there was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans."
(conjunction) : with the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated
"you look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair."
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Definition of except:

(v) : to exclude; to specify as being an exception; to take exception, to object to
"2007: But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews. -- Glen Bowersock, 'Provocateur', London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17"
(preposition) : with the exception of; but
"there was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans."
(conjunction) : with the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated
"you look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair."

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