empt
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of empt
from Old English ǣmtian to be without duties; compare empty
Example Sentences
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Such income is ex empt from "normal" taxes, subject to surtaxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Day of Protest was the ANC’s first att empt to hold a political strike on a national scale and it was a moderate success.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
God would not ex- empt himself from that; the misery of immortality in the flesh he undertook not, that was immortal.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
I am ashamed to trouble you, sir, but if you'll take down the bags I'll empt 'em as careful as I can.
From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
We want that monefull sounde, That pratling Progne makes On fieldes of Thracian ground, Or streames of Thracian lakes: To empt her brest of paine For Itys by her slaine.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney
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