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abridgement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abridgment, capsule, condensation |
| Type of | sum-up, summary |
| Derivation | abridge |
Examples of abridgement
abridgement
Needs knowledgeable abridgement and cleanup of some areas, expansion of others.
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The time constraints of the wax cylinder medium probably required the abridgement.
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Abridgement is most often used to adapt a book into a narrated audio version.
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Waley noted in his preface that the novel was usually read in abridgement in Chinese.
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This necessity, defined by this preference, does not make such abridgement constitutional.
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In the case, Starr argued that the law is an unconstitutional abridgement of free speech.
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I came to know of them when I prepared an abridgement of the Mustadrak and pointed them out.
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The decision did not define the exact parameters that would qualify a work as a valid abridgement.
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Federal courts later declared the Speaker Ban an unconstitutional abridgement of the right to free speech.
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- Condensation: a shortened version of a written work
- Abridgement or abridgment is a term defined as "shortening" or "condensing" and is most commonly used in reference to the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form. ...
- (abridged) cut or shortened, especially of a literary work
- (Abridged) October 28, 1998 HarperCollins Publishers
- (abridged) condensed, shortened but keeping the main contents.
- The shorter version that results from abridging. See Abridge.
- Shorten the long wait
