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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



... friend's prowess, that he might aspire to the hand of any lady, that one retiring, modest-browed girl had not been thought of by him. A man in talking to another man about women is always supposed to consider those belonging to himself as exempt from the incidents of the conversation. The dearest friends do not talk to each other about their sisters when they have once left school; and a man in such a position as that now taken by Graham has ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... stick through the air, and Bruff crouched at his feet, grovelling in the sand, and holding up his wounded and bandaged paw as he whined piteously, as if that injury were sufficient to exempt him from being beaten. ...
— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn
... to think that these diseases should be confined to the poor—that a man should be exposed to cholera, typhus, and a host of attendant diseases, simply because he is born into the world an artisan; while the rich, by the mere fact of money, are exempt from such curses, except when they come in contact with those whom they call on Sunday "their brethren," and on week ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley
... churchmen, as usual, in the Philippines, was not always to be well directed; for the merciless Inquisition having established itself at Manilla, commenced its terrible career. No one was safe, none were exempt from its powers; its emissaries penetrated even into the palace of the Governor. Moderation in religion, or remissness in its strictest observances, became crimes, punishable by the severest discipline of that fearful and cruel establishment. All attempts, ...
— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking
... entitled by the terms of that will to be regarded both legally and socially as his representative. This you all know, but it is my way to make everything clear as I proceed. A lawyer's trick, no doubt. I do not pretend to be entirely exempt from such." ...
— The House in the Mist • Anna Katharine Green


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