abridgment
IPA: ʌbrˈɪdʒmʌnt
noun
- (US) The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
- (US) The state of being abridged or lessened.
- (US) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
- (obsolete) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly
- (dated, law) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
- (law) The leaving out of certain portions of a plaintiff's demand, the writ still holding good for the remainder.
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Examples of "abridgment" in Sentences
- Section 4,in particular, needs abridgment.
- I spent three hours working on abridgment.
- What is it with the Americans and word abridgment?
- The word kitzur is Hebrew for shortening or abridgment.
- A popular abridgment in seven volumes was published in 1867.
- It was an abridgment based on the French version of Claude Perrault.
- This is basically just an abridgment of an article in today's Times.
- Instead of giving a faithful translation, Fabre made a kind of abridgment of it.
- As if putting a soda can in one garbage can or another is somehow an abridgment of their freedom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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);
- 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.
- 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.