Dictionary Check: excerption
"excerption" is a valid word!
Scrabble
21
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Words with Friends
24
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Definition
noun
a passage selected from a larger work
Example:
"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
noun
The act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work.
Example:
"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."
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