except

Definition

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French excepter, from Latin exceptus.

Example Sentences

• "I find most people annoying — present company excepted, of course!"
• "But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews."
• "to except to a witness or his testimony"

Related Words