excerption

/ɪkˈsɜrpʃən/
noun
  1. The act of selecting and copying out passages from a text; also, a passage selected in this way.
    • His excerption of the speech was printed in the newspaper the next day.
    • The scholar's excerption of ancient manuscripts took many months of careful work.
    • The excerption of key facts from the textbook helped the students study more efficiently.
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