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
