Dictionary entry

Exempt (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ex‐empt″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n.Exempting.] [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.] 1. To remove; to set apart. Holland.

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.

Death

So snatched will not exempt us from the pain

We are by doom to pay. Milton.