The act or process of selecting and extracting passages from a text; the practice of making excerpts.
From Latin excerpere + -tion (noun-forming suffix). The -tion ending creates an abstract noun describing the action or process, common in Latin-derived English words.
Excerption has ancient roots—the practice goes back to the earliest libraries where scribes couldn't copy entire works, so they made strategic selections that shaped which ideas survived to the modern era.
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