Exempting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.
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              Death
              So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
              We are by doom to pay.                --Milton.
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