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Exempt   /ɪgzˈɛmpt/   Listen
adjective
Exempt  adj.  
1.
Cut off; set apart. (Obs.) "Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry."
2.
Extraordinary; exceptional. (Obs.)
3.
Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. "True nobility is exempt from fear." "T is laid on all, not any one exempt."


verb
Exempt  v. t.  (past & past part. exempted; pres. part. exempting)  
1.
To remove; to set apart. (Obs.)
2.
To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain. "Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay."


noun
Exempt  n.  
1.
One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
2.
One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. (Eng.)





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"Exempt" Quotes from Famous Books



... companion she looked for. Ann and she were not congenial minds, nor did she contribute to her comfort in the degree she expected. She shielded her from poverty; but this was only a negative blessing; when under the pressure it was very grievous, and still more so were the apprehensions; but when exempt from them, she ...
— Mary - A Fiction • Mary Wollstonecraft
... a Wyoming cattle company bought all the central Texas steers for delivery a month later at Cheyenne, and we grazed them up the South Platte and counted them out to the buyers, ten thousand strong. My individual herds classed as Pan-Handle cattle, exempt from quarantine, netted one dollar a head above the others, and were sold to speculators from the corn regions on the western borders of Nebraska. One herd of cows was intended for the Southern and the other for the Uncompahgre Utes, and they had been picking their way through and across the ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams
... for Motherhood.—The second fact which must have its recognition in any study of education in relation to the family, is that no married woman is exempt from all demands of motherhood unless some "selective draft," more delicate in its evaluation than any we have yet evolved, shall indicate her right to exemption, and that if marriage is to continue on anything like its ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
... any wise exchewe yl & shrewd compani yf a ma be neuer soo good & vse [with] th[e] [that] be vnthrifti He shal lese his name, & to some vice they wil him t[e]p therfore beware of such people, & from th[e] be exempt ...
— The Interlude of Wealth and Health • Anonymous
... How many times must I explain to you that that wouldn't do, because your ma, while she possesses many of the charms, is not quite exempt from the weakness of her sex: in short, Lydia, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various


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