Definition of Exempt

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Exempt

Cut off; set apart.

Extraordinary; exceptional.

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.

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.

To remove; to set apart.

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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Exempt Quotations

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
Herman Melville

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac Disraeli

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
Bill Delahunt

Exempt Translations

exempt in Dutch is vrijstellen, ontslaan
exempt in French is dispensez, dispensons, dispensent
exempt in German is freistellen
exempt in Hungarian is mentes, felmentett
exempt in Norwegian is frita
exempt in Spanish is exento
exempt in Swedish is fritagen, frita

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