Shortened form of something.
Condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form.
1 This abridgement was made by the different friends of the cause.
2 I had but one object in view, abridgement for compression sake.
3 An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man.
4 It may be deemed prolix, yet I should not do justice by a farther abridgement .
5 Nor in what may be termed Plato's abridgement of the history of philosophy (Soph.
6 This is only an abridgement of your panegyric.
7 The reader, however, would most probably prefer to hear an abridgement of the tale in our own words.
8 Mr. Wilberforce then presented it to the House of Commons, as a faithful abridgement of the whole evidence.
9 Most of it was an abridgement of some verses Jurgen had composed, in the shop when business was slack.
10 They argued the reviews as currently practiced breach the Constitution's First Amendment prohibition on government abridgement of freedom of speech.
11 An abridgement of the natural freedom of men, by the institutions of political societies, is vindicable only on this foot.
12 Without addition or abridgement .
13 So even though I was tired from finishing the abridgement , I went on nervous energy and did the screenplay immediately after.
14 I chanced to possess an abridgement of the "Biblia naturae," the masterly work of the father of insect anatomy.
15 I said, printing an abridgement of a work was allowed, which was only cutting the horns and tail off the cow.
16 Even his best-known novel, Solaris, is available in US bookstores only as an English translation of a French abridgement of the Polish original.
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