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Exempt   /ɪgzˈɛmpt/   Listen
Exempt

adjective
1.
(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject.  "Exempt from jury duty" , "Only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"
2.
(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation.  Synonym: nontaxable.  "Income exempt from taxation"
verb
(past & past part. exempted; pres. part. exempting)
1.
Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.  Synonyms: free, relieve.
2.
Grant exemption or release to.  Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve.



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"Exempt" Quotes from Famous Books



... course was not all sunshine, neither was his conduct altogether immaculate. He was not exempt from the general rule, that "through much tribulation" men shall enter into the Kingdom. As he walked along, rejoicing in his existence and in the beauty of that magnificent evening, a cloud would rise occasionally and call forth a sigh, as ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... service du sentiment les plus subtiles lumieres de la raison,...—l'esprit de finesse employe a decouvrir les plus secrets mouvements de notre sensibilite,—par consequent l'usage conscient d'un style ajuste a la tenuite de ces enquetes, style qui n'est pas exempt de recherche, mais qui abonde en trouvailles decisives,—voila precisement ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

... and Church lands were free from taxation. It was not till a comparatively late period that the payment of tithes was enforced by law. Not infrequently the Church was despoiled by violence, but the balance was more than recovered by fraud. By the time of Charlemagne the clergy were almost exempt from civil jurisdiction and held practically an exclusive authority in matters of religion. The state, however, maintained its temporal supremacy. When the strong hand of Charlemagne was removed ecclesiastical ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... that made me, Ile maintaine my words On any Plot of Ground in Christendome. Was not thy Father, Richard, Earle of Cambridge, For Treason executed in our late Kings dayes? And by his Treason, stand'st not thou attainted, Corrupted, and exempt from ancient Gentry? His Trespas yet liues guiltie in thy blood, And till thou be restor'd, thou art ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... board holds two kinds of examinations: First, examinations of schools for the benefit of schools exclusively, and having no effect to admit individuals to the universities or to exempt them from subsequent examinations, whether at the universities or elsewhere; second, examinations of individuals for certificates which give exemption from the entrance-examinations at Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest examinations of the university ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various


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