What does excepting mean?
Excepting means present participle and gerund of except.
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/ɪkˈsɛptɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of except.
Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred, excepting reason itself.
We've all done it, not excepting Borja.
It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.
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Excepting means present participle and gerund of except.
Common synonyms include excepted, save for, apart, apart from.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred, excepting reason itself.
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