1. verb /ɛksɛpt/
But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words...
2. preposition /ɛksɛpt/
With the exception of; but.
There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
3. conjunction /ɛksɛpt/
a) 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.
b) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
I never made fun of her except teasingly.
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