'Excepting' definitions:
Definition of 'Excepting'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Who never touched The excepted tree. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. --Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Excepting'
From: GCIDE
- Excepting \Ex*cept"ing\, prep. & conj., but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excepting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aside from,
- bar,
- barring,
- beside,
- besides,
- but,
- discounting,
- ex,
- except,
- except for,
- except that,
- exception taken of,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- from,
- if not,
- leaving out,
- less,
- let alone,
- minus,
- not counting,
- off,
- omitting,
- outside of,
- precluding,
- save,
- save and except,
- saving,
- than,
- unless,
- unless that,
- were it not,
- without