except

except is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.

[2] To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] Shak.

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