excerpt
noun
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
excerption
-
a word derived from
excerpt.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
If Green’s fiction has a fault, it’s the way his characters’ thoughts and dialogue lean so hard toward the aphoristic, neat if melancholy formulations that seem purpose-built for excerption on a Goodreads favorite-quotes-from page.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2017
The great mass of his translations, published and unpublished, and the smaller mass of his early hackwork, no doubt deserves judicious excerption.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
