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Noun: excerption
  1. A passage selected from a larger work
    - excerpt, extract, selection
     
  2. The act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work.
    "But the phenomenon of excerption can help us create a possible scenario for how the commentary preserved in Berol. 9780, a papyrus from Hermoupolis dating to the second century C.E., was created."

Derived forms: excerptions

Type of: choice, option, passage, pick, selection

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