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Definition of Except
Except

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

To object to; to protest against.

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

With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

Unless; if it be not so that.

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Except Quotations

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson

Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman

Except Translations

except in Dutch is uitzonderen
except in Finnish is paitsi
except in French is sauf, hormis, exempter, excepter
except in Latin is absque (+ ablative), nisi
except in Norwegian is uten, unnta, untatt
except in Portuguese is exceto
except in Swedish is utom


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