EXCEPTING

Definitions: EXCEPTING

EXCEPTING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Except

Preposition & conjunction, but properly a particip

1. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "EXCEPTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nonaddition Subtraction	Adverb: in deduction; Noun: less; short of; minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation; not counting, if one doesn't count.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: EXCEPTING

English words defined with "EXCEPTING": Bating ♦ finger ♦ Microscope stand ♦ rank and file. (references)

Specialty definitions using "EXCEPTING": alpha-alumina ♦ Kenno ♦ money ♦ Red Cap, Rene ♦ shock-proof ♦ tail ♦ VAX. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Algebra Geometrica: Being the Only Known Work of This Nearly Forgotten Renaissance Mathematician, Excepting a Still Unpublished Treatise on the divis (reference) Megalithic Architecture in Europe: Ii, France Excepting Brittany (reference) Trauma surgery: excepting bones and joints (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Son of agricultural day laborer in corner of room. The garments hanging on the wall were all the clothes this family of three possessed excepting a wornout coat for the girl. Webbers Falls, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.		Saint Clair (vicinity), Pennsylvania. The ghost town of Lorain near Saint Clair. The P.& R.I.& C. colliery here was closed down eight years ago and all "company houses" excepting two were removed.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Thomas Campbell	For I fear I have nothing original in me -- Excepting Original Sin.
Voltaire	All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	It shall be lawful in future for anyone (excepting always those imprisoned or outlawed in accordance with the law of the kingdom, and natives of any country at war with us, and merchants, who shall be treated as if above provided) to leave our kingdom and to return, safe and secure by land and water, except for a short period in time of war, on grounds of public policy- reserving always the allegiance due to us. (reference)
John Locke	1690	And those that we have, of the beginning of any polities in the world, excepting that of the Jews, where God himself immediately interposed, and which favours not at all paternal dominion, are all either plain instances of such a beginning as I have mentioned, or at least have manifest footsteps of it. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	Clause 3: Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The French State shall always be entitled to demand the application of the German mining laws and regulations in force on November 11, 1918, excepting provisions adopted exclusively in view of the state of war, with a view to the acquisition of such land as it may judge necessary for the exploitation of the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Excepting yourself and your brother, I do not know his equal for temper.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	I tell thee, fellow, He that doth naught with her, excepting one, Were best to do it secretly alone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Slovak Rep	The usual retail hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., excepting grocery stores which open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. Most stores close at 12:00 p.m. on Saturdays and are closed on Sundays. (references)
Trade	Bangladesh	A 2.5% infrastructure development surcharge is levied on almost all imports, excepting rice, raw hides, cotton, synthetic fiber, and computer hardware and software. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	With the Barbary Powers, excepting that of Algiers, our affairs remain on the ordinary footing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"EXCEPTING" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 50.57% of the time. "EXCEPTING" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Preposition (except "of")	50.57%	44	51,500
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	49.43%	43	52,181
Total	100.00%	87	N/A

Expression using "EXCEPTING": not excepting. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "EXCEPTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përveç (as well as, aside from, besides, beyond, but, except, over and over, saving), me përjashtim të (but for, except, except for, excluding, save). (various references)

Arabic		‏ماعدا (beyond, saving), ‏ما عدا (bar, but, except, excluding, exclusively, save), ‏بإستثناء (barring, bating, besides, except, except for, exclusive, save, unless). (various references)

Bulgarian		с изключение на (barring, but, except, excluding, outside, save, with reservation of), освен (all but, apart from, aside from, bating, beside, beyond, but, except, exclusive of, in addition to, other, over and above, saving, than, therewithal). (various references)

Chinese		除去 (Excepted). (various references)

Czech		kromì (apart from, aside, barring, besides, beyond, but, except, within). (various references)

Danish		Ad hoc-udvalg for grubeindustri undtagen Kulminedrift (Ad hoc Committee on the Extractive Industries excepting Coal). (various references)

Dutch		Comité ad hoc Niet-steenkoolmijnen (Ad hoc Committee on the Extractive Industries excepting Coal). (various references)

Finnish		paitsi (apart from, besides, but, except, except for, save). (various references)

French		excepté (except), sauf (except, except for, excluding, Exclusion), � l'exception de (except for). (various references)

German		ausgenommen (apart from, barring, besides, but, except, except for, excepted, excluded, gilled, other than, save). (various references)

Greek		εκτόσ (beside, besides, but, except, out, outside, save, unless). (various references)

Hebrew		פרט ל- (except, except for, save, with the exception of), חוץ מן- (apart from, besides, but, except, except for, excluding, without). (various references)

Hungarian		vminek kivételével (all but, excluding, to the exclusion of sg, with exception of), kivéve (bar, barring, bated, but, except, except for, except that, excluding, save, wanting), ... kivételével. (various references)

Italian		Comitato ad hoc per le industrie minerarie non carbonifere (Ad hoc Committee on the Extractive Industries excepting Coal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		以外 (with the exception of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いがい (corpse, remains, surprising, unexpected, with the exception of). (various references)

Korean		� �외 (Precluding). (various references)

Pig Latin		exceptingay

Portuguese		exceto (barring, bating, besides, but, except, of other, save, saving, wanting), salvo disposição em contrário de. (various references)

Romanian		exceptând (aside from, bar, barring), cu excepţia (barring, bating, but, except, save, save that, saving, short of, with the exception of). (various references)

Russian		за исключением (all but, apart from, aside from, barring, bating, except, except for, except in, save, save for, to the exclusion of, with but, with the exception of, with the exclusion of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sem (apart from, barring, beside, except, save, unless), s izuzetkom, osim (aside from, barring, bating, beside, but, else, except, except for, save), izuzimajući (bating, excluding). (various references)

Spanish		salvo (bar, barring, but, except, except for, safe, save, saving, subject to, without prejudice), dejando aparte (except), con excepción de (except, excluding). (various references)

Swedish		utom (apart from, bar, besides, beyond, but, except, excluding, other than, out of, outside, past, save, saving), med undantag för (except for), med undantag av (aside from, except for, exclusive of, saving). (various references)

Thai		ยกเว้น (คำทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		hariç (bar, barring, but, but the, except for, excluding, not including, save, short), dışında (apart from, aside from, barring, beside, besides, but the, except, except that, not including, off, on the outside of, out of, outside of, save, saving, short, short of, without), başka (another, apart from, barring, beside, but, different, distinct, else, except, forth, hetero-, other, other than, otherwise, save, saving). (various references)

Ukranian		крім як (except), крім (bar, barring, beside, besides, beyond, but, else, except, outside, outwith, save, saving, than, without), за винятком (aside from, bar, barring, but, except, omitting, outside, save, short of). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "EXCEPTING" (pronounced e'kse"pting)
7	-k s e" p t i ng	accepting.
6	-s e" p t i ng	intercepting.
4	-p t i ng	adapting, adopting, attempting, bankrupting, corrupting, disrupting, erupting, exempting, interrupting, opting, preempting, prompting, sculpting, tempting.
3	-t i ng	abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: expecting.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-p-t-x"
	-2 letters: exigent, genetic.
	-3 letters: entice, except, excite, expect, incept, pecten, pectin, peeing, teeing.
	-4 letters: exine, genet, genic, genie, genip, inept, niece, pence, piece, tenge, tinge, xenic.
	-5 letters: cent, cepe, cete, cine, cite, epic, etic, exec, exit, gene, gent, gien, neep, next, nice, nite, nixe, peen, pein, pent, pice, pine, ping, pint, teen, tine, ting.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-p-t-x"
	+1 letter: excerpting.
	+4 letters: expectorating.
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