exempt

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

verb grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
verb grant exemption or release to
adjective (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject

From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? — The war of the worlds, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Did it exempt them from human inconveniences? — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne
This did not exempt me from labor. — Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

relieve, free

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