Exempt /(?)/
Ex·empt
Exempt
a.
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Cut off; set apart. [Obs.]
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
- Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.]
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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.
Exempt
n.
- One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
- One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
Exempt
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting
- To remove; to set apart. [Obs.]
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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.