(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:31:25

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.

 

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