excerpting

English

Verb

excerpting

1. present participle and gerund of excerpt

Noun

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.