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English Dictionary: exempting by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Exempt \Ex*empt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exempted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Exempting}.] [F. exempter. See {Exempt}, a.]
      1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] --Holland.
  
      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.                        --Milton.
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