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Except

/ɪkˈsɛpt/

To leave out or exclude something from a group or category

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"Excepting yourself – is it not?You are always sleeping, except at meal times.So we went to bed shamed and low spirited, except Stevens.

late Middle English (in the sense ‘take out’): from Latin except- ‘taken out’, from the verb excipere, from ex- ‘out of’ + capere ‘take’

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