Excerption

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of excerpting or picking out; a gleaning; selection.
  • noun. That which is selected or gleaned; an excerpt.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of excerpting or selecting.
  • noun. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
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  • noun. The act of excerpting or selecting.
  • noun. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
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  • noun. a passage selected from a larger work
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