excerpting

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Verb[edit]

excerpting

  1. present participle and gerund of excerpt

Noun[edit]

excerpting (plural excerptings)

  1. The act of taking an excerpt.
    • 1999, Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown, Russell Wheatley, Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments:
      The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings.