Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of abridging or the state of being abridged.
- noun An abridged written text.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; contraction; reduction; curtailment; restriction: as, an abridgment of expenses; “abridgment of liberty,”
- noun A condensation, as of a book; a reduction within a smaller space; a reproduction of anything in reduced or condensed form.
- noun That which abridges or cuts short.
- noun That which shortens anything, as time, or makes it appear short; hence, a pastime.
- noun Also spelled
abridgement .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation.
- noun An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form, esp. of a written work; an abbreviation.
- noun obsolete That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.
- noun a diminution or curtailment, as of legal rights.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete That which
abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly - noun dated, law Any of various brief statments of
case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shortened version of a written work
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Examples
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What is it with the Americans and word abridgment?
La Coquette: 2004
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What is it with the Americans and word abridgment?
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His text-book in the instruction of the monks, was the theological treatise of St. Anthony of Padua, translated into Arabic; of which he made an abridgment, that is still used among the Maronites.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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This is an abridgment of the history of Israel's provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor.x. 5, &c.); for these things were written for our admonition, that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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9 A.D. We know the work from the epitomes of the books and from Justin's abridgment, which is similar to that of Florus on Livy.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Instead of giving a faithful translation, Fabre made a kind of abridgment of it.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866
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This we have already observed concerning pride and humility, and here repeat it concerning love and hatred; and indeed there is so great a resemblance betwixt these two sets of passions, that we shall be obliged to begin with a kind of abridgment of our reasonings concerning the former, in order to explain the latter.
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743
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This we have already observed concerning pride and humility, and here repeat it concerning love and hatred; and indeed there is so great a resemblance betwixt these two sets of passions, that we shall be obliged to begin with a kind of abridgment of our reasonings concerning the former, in order to explain the latter.
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See Twin Peaks, 996 F. 2d at 1372-73, 1375-76 (finding that the book at issue was an "abridgment" because it recounted "precisely the plot details" of television episodes "in the same sequence" as they appeared in the original series);
unalog 2008
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As if putting a soda can in one garbage can or another is somehow an abridgment of their freedom.
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