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What does "exempt" mean?

Exempt: Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.
  2. 3.One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
  3. 4.One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
  4. 5.To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] Holland.
  5. 6.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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