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Excerpt vs Excerption - What's the difference?

excerpt | excerption |

As nouns the difference between excerpt and excerption

is that excerpt is a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media while excerption is the act of excerpting or selecting.

As a verb excerpt

is to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

excerpt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

    • Verb

  • To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
  • * Fuller
    • out of which we have excerpted the following particulars

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    excerption

    English

    Noun

  • The act of excerpting or selecting.
  • That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
    • His excerptions out of the Fathers. — Fuller.
    (Webster 1913)