Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exempting"

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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