excepting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of except

prep

1. with the exception of

   “Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred, excepting reason itself.”

   “We've all done it, not excepting Borja.”

   “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.”