exempt
verb (used with object)
to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release.
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The Connecticut authorities, when imbued with the persecuting spirit, did not always stop to distinguish between the legally exempt Baptist dissenters and the unexempted Separatists.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene