excerpt; excerption; extract; selection




a passage selected from a larger work

"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

Type of:
  • passage

Types:
  • chrestomathy
  • analects; analecta
  • clipping; newspaper clipping; press clipping; cutting; press cutting
  • cut; track
  • quotation; quote; citation


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