Excuse vs Exempted - What's the difference?
excuse | exempted |
To forgive; to pardon.
* Shakespeare
* Archbishop Sharp
To allow to leave.
To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
* Bible, 2. Corinthians xii. 19
An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment.
(legal) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
An example.(attention)
(exempt)
Free from a duty or obligation.
* Dryden
(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
(obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
One who has been released from something.
(historical) A type of French police officer.
* 1840 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book :
(UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
As verbs the difference between excuse and exempted
is that excuse is while exempted is (exempt).excuse
English
Verb
(excus)- I excused him his transgressions.
- I must excuse what cannot be amended.
- A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practising it, if really and indeed it be against God's law.
- May I be excused from the table?
- I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard.
- You know he shouldn't have done it, so don't try to excuse his behavior!
- Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you?
Synonyms
* forgive, let off the hook, let pass, pardon, unguiltDerived terms
* excuse me * excuse my FrenchNoun
(en noun)- Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses !
- That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?
- He's a sorry excuse of a doctor.
Usage notes
* We often say to make an excuse.Synonyms
* (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment ): pretextExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----exempted
English
Verb
(head)exempt
English
Adjective
(-)- In their country all women are exempt from military service.
- His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
- 'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt .
- corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
- (Chapman)
Derived terms
* tax-exemptNoun
(en noun)- with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].