excepting
preposition
[ ɪkˈsɛptɪŋ ]
• except for; apart from.
• "excepting a scratched door, the car was in good condition"
except
verb
• specify as excluded from a category or group.
• "five classes of advertisement are excepted from control"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin except- ‘taken out’, from the verb excipere, from ex- ‘out of’ + capere ‘take’.
