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excerption
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun excerption has 1 sense
- excerption(n = noun.communication) excerpt, extract, selection - a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" is a kind of passage
has particulars: chrestomathy, analecta, analects, clipping, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, cut, track, citation, quotation, quote, haftarah, haftorah, haphtarah, haphtorah
CIDE DICTIONARY
excerption, n. [L. excerptio.].
- The act of excerpting or selecting. [1913 Webster]
- That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [1913 Webster]"His excerptions out of the Fathers." [1913 Webster]
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excerption
Choice
N choice, option, discretion, preoption, alternative, dilemma, embarras de choix, adoption, cooptation, novation, decision, election, political election (politics), selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism, excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste, pick, preference, prelation, opinion poll, survey, predilection, optional, discretional, eclectic, choosing, preferential, chosen, choice, optionally, at pleasure, either the one or the other, or at the option of, whether or not, once and for all, for one's money, by choice, by preference, in preference, rather, before.
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