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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excepting \Ex*cept"ing\, prep. & conj., but properly a
participle.
With rejection or exception of excluding; except.
``Excepting your worship's presence.'' --Shak.
No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting
by himself. --Lubbock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Except \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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