Definition of "exempt"

Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]

1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], Act I, page 15

corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]

Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval

1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857,

with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].

1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book