EXCERPTION

A passage selected from a larger work

Example: "He presented excerpts from william james' philosophical writings"

• excerpt  18
• extract  16
• selection  11

• passage  10

• chrestomathy  25
• analecta  10
• analects  10
• clipping  15
• • cutting  10
  • newspaper clipping
  • press clipping
  • press cutting
  • cut  5
  • track  11
  • citation  10
  • quotation  18
  • quote  14
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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."