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Part of Speech: verb transitive

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except

Part of Speech: conjunction

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1. Unless; if it be not so that.

2. Unless.

Part of Speech: preposition

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

Part of Speech: verb

1. To take exception; to object; - usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

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

2. To object to; to protest against.

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Examples of usage:

He's never been far enough off- except when he was getting ready to come. - "The Old Gray Homestead", Frances Parkinson Keyes.
" No one knows what I am- except myself. - "The Keeper of the Door", Ethel M. Dell.
If she's got to have a husband, I don't know of a better one than you, except St. John, and he is already married once. - "Heart of Gold", Ruth Alberta Brown.

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