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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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... 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 ...

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