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   Exempt , a. [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf. Exon, Redeem.]
   Cut off; set apart. [Obs.]
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   Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
   Shak.
   
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   Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.]
   Chapman.
   
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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.
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   True nobility is exempt from fear.
   Shak.
   
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   T is laid on all, not any one exempt.
   Dryden.
   
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   Exempt, n.
   One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
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   One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
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   Exempt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.] [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.]
   To remove; to set apart. [Obs.]
   Holland.
   
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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.
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   Death
   So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
   We are by doom to pay.
   Milton.
   
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