exempt vs except
Definitions
verb
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- grant exemption or release to
adjective
- (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
- (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
Examples
Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping.
But a family planning a wedding reception would be able to claim exemption from import duty.
Definitions
verb
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- take exception to
Examples
This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth.
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