Dictionary Check: excerption

"excerption" is a valid word!

Scrabble 21 points
Words with Friends 24 points

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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