1. exempt - Noun
2. exempt - Adjective
3. exempt - Verb
Cut off; set apart.
Extraordinary; exceptional.
Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
To remove; to set apart.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. Michel de Montaigne
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. Karen Joy Fowler
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Aristotle
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. Herman Melville
I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. Pierre de Fermat