excepting

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of except

prep

1. with the exception of
   Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred, excepting reason itself.
   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. 1875, John Thomson, The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China, page 408