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abridgement

[ US /əˈbɹɪdʒmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɐbɹˈɪd‍ʒmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a shortened version of a written work

How To Use abridgement In A Sentence

  • Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law. A History of American Law
  • Flo Gibson records only the classics - and only the entire book, never an abridgement.
  • These lines form a kind of abridgement or _précis_ of the whole Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • I see "abridgement" on a book, I think, well I'm not getting the real deal. Archive 2005-12-01
  • Ampersand, the name by which we know & today, is a corrupt abridgement of the phrase, and first appeared in dictionaries in 1837. The curious land of the ampersand
  • 535 Here some abridgement is necessary, for we have another recital of what has been told more than once. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The sources, however, have disappeared in the severe abridgement which has reduced the lexicon to a glossary, copious though that remains.
  • Not even Balzac was too great for abridgement, carped the critics.
  • In the second sense, ‘discrimination’ means the wrongful denial or abridgement of the civil rights of some persons in a context where others enjoy their full set of rights.
  • It was so tightly written that it needed little abridgement. Times, Sunday Times
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