How To Use Abridgement In A Sentence
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Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.
A History of American Law
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Flo Gibson records only the classics - and only the entire book, never an abridgement.
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These lines form a kind of abridgement or _précis_ of the whole
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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I see "abridgement" on a book, I think, well I'm not getting the real deal.
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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
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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
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The sources, however, have disappeared in the severe abridgement which has reduced the lexicon to a glossary, copious though that remains.
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Not even Balzac was too great for abridgement, carped the critics.
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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.
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It was so tightly written that it needed little abridgement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite its abridgement, the film still packs a punch.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I recall correctly this is actually an abridgement or condensation of a longer, more academically-oriented book.
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Michael produced an abridgement of Manning Clark's A History of Australia, published by Melbourne University Press and Penguin.
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Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
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Fisher's guide to a healthy life sold 400,000 copies in 21 editions in his lifetime, far more than any of his other books, while insurance companies distributed 12 to 15 million copies of an abridgement.
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Macmillan's series of Agatha Christie audio CDs, with their elegant black-and-white cover designs, features pacey abridgements of the prolific writer's rather uninspiring prose.
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Beginners are encouraged to read abridgement of David Copperfield because the original is too difficult.
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Abridgement has meant a loss of detail, but has made the book work better for a modern audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
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The original manuscript for this biography was three times as long as the present work; abridgement necessitated brutal condensation.
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This is referred to in the next passage, where Theseus speaks of the masque as an 'abridgement' for the evening, that is, an entertainment to shorten the hours.
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Various abridgements were made of it in the early middle ages, the most widely disseminated of which was the so-called Breviary of Alaric or Lex Romana Visigothorum.
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Michael produced an abridgement of Manning Clark's A History of Australia, published by Melbourne University Press and Penguin.
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The irony is that a weakened department, based in Edinburgh, will lose its core programme on the national station: it will go on making drama and book abridgements for the network, but not for Radio Scotland.
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Fisher's guide to a healthy life sold 400,000 copies in 21 editions in his lifetime, far more than any of his other books, while insurance companies distributed 12 to 15 million copies of an abridgement.
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Extensive repository supplements have turned the online journal into the complete version of AJRCCM, and the paper copy is simply an abridgement.
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In this eight-disc set, an abridgement of the book of the same name and the first of three volumes, Simon Schama retells the creation of modern Britain.
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In conclusion, the author puts forward three translation strategies, namely, abridgement, adaptation and interpretation.
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I'm not advocating any abridgement of free speech here; just pointing out that such speech has consequences.
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The Chinese original, of which this is an abridgement, was published in Common Wealth Monthly.
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Now, that, my dear reader, is called abridgement, and it is frowned upon in literary circles.
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If he sounds a bit out of his depth, it's understandable given the break-neck pace of the abridgement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first Collegiate was compiled to be used by college students, taking its place in a series of abridgements intended to serve students from primary to university level.
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In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
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Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
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The expressive notation facilitates abridgement in order to specify broader categories.
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The first Collegiate was compiled to be used by college students, taking its place in a series of abridgements intended to serve students from primary to university level.
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Work on abridgement of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's masterpiece Tarjumanul Quran is going to be started soon.
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A political ideology, then, should be viewed as an abridgement of a particular tradition.
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Flo Gibson records only the classics - and only the entire book, never an abridgement.
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First, as mentioned earlier, the portions of the Lexicon that encapsulate plot elements or sketch plotlines bear no comparison with the guidebook in Twin Peaks, whose plot summaries giving "elaborate recounting of plot details" were found to constitute an "abridgement" of the original work.
Unalog
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Indeed, a sense of hasty abridgement endures throughout the first half: incident follows incident in a breezy sequence at odds with the novel's steady accretion of narrative.
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This article is an abridgement of the final chapter.
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The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use.
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I'm not advocating any abridgement of free speech here; just pointing out that such speech has consequences.
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In this eight-disc set, an abridgement of the book of the same name and the first of three volumes, Simon Schama retells the creation of modern Britain.
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An abridgement of Bloomfield's letter, together with extracts from
Letter 241
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Read the original and you will find in almost every case it outclasses its big-screen abridgement.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
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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.
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If I recall correctly this is actually an abridgement or condensation of a longer, more academically-oriented book.
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Extensive repository supplements have turned the online journal into the complete version of AJRCCM, and the paper copy is simply an abridgement.
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Macmillan's series of Agatha Christie audio CDs, with their elegant black-and-white cover designs, features pacey abridgements of the prolific writer's rather uninspiring prose.
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The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use.
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This article is a substantial abridgement of a chapter from the author's book Has science got rid of God?
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No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color ....
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Various abridgements were made of it in the early middle ages, the most widely disseminated of which was the so-called Breviary of Alaric or Lex Romana Visigothorum.
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This article is an abridgement of the final chapter.
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The irony is that a weakened department, based in Edinburgh, will lose its core programme on the national station: it will go on making drama and book abridgements for the network, but not for Radio Scotland.
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Medieval culture reveled in derivative works of every kind: translations, adaptations, abridgements, elaborations, collections, and florilegia.
The Venerable Heritage of Free Culture
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An abridgement of the Carolingian capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious by Ansegisus, possibly acting in an official capacity, was made in the 820s.
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Other times they shorten what has to be read through abridgement and synthesis.
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This article is a substantial abridgement of a chapter from the author's book Has science got rid of God?
