preposition. With the exclusion of; other than; but.

conjunction. If it were not for the fact that; only. Often used with that:

conjunction. Otherwise than.

conjunction. Unless.

intransitive verb. To leave out; exclude.

intransitive verb. To object.

idiom. (except for) Were it not for.

Being excepted or left out; with the exception of; excepting: usually equivalent to but, but more emphatic.

Excepting; if it be not that; unless.

To take or leave out of consideration; exclude from a statement or category, as one or more of a number, or some particular or detail; omit or withhold: as, to except a few from a general condemnation.

To object; take exception: now usually followed by to, but formerly sometimes by against: as, to except to a witness or to his testimony.

conjunction. Unless; if it be not so that.

preposition. With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

intransitive verb. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against.

transitive verb. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

transitive verb. To object to; to protest against.

verb. To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

verb. To take exception, to object (to or against).

preposition. With the exception of; but.

conjunction. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

conjunction. Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

verb. take exception to

verb. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

"True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life."

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abjure  abscind  absolve  amputate  annihilate  

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