Noun: excerption
- 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"
- A passage selected from a larger work
"The review included several excerptions from the novel";
- excerpt, extract, selection
Derived forms: excerptions