Home › Words › E › excerptionexcerption/ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/excerption means the act of excerpting or selecting.excerption is pronounced /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/.EtymologyLatin excerptio.nounThe act of excerpting or selecting.Something which is selected or gleaned; an extract (of text, audio, data etc.).e.g.“his excerptions out of Fathers” — 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).