Both Uses of
concise
in
Mansfield Park
- But if he wrote to his father, no wonder he was concise.†
Chpt 29 *
- …of the female world at least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(concise) expressing much in few words