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Excerption Definition & Meaning

excerption
noun
  1. a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

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What does excerption mean?
a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
What part of speech is excerption?
Excerption is a noun.

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