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    I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.  (source)
    abridgement = reduction
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use abridgment.
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    AN ABRIDGED ROLL CALL FOR 1942  (source)
    ABRIDGED = made shorter
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    Her father is telling an abridged story of their flight, train stations, fearful crowds, omitting the stop in Evreux, but soon all of Marie-Laure's attention is absorbed by the smells blooming around her: egg, spinach, melting cheese.  (source)
    abridged = shortened (version of a)
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    Options for My Hypothetical Future Recovery Scenario (Abridged)  (source)
    Abridged = shortened; or reduced in scope while retaining essential elements
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    The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further abridge land for Africans.†  (source)
    abridge = shorten; or reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
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    We have to read an abridgment, and it's still a hundred and sixty pages long.†  (source)
    abridgment = shortened book; or something reduced in scope while retaining essential elements
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    The unabridged biography of the designer, Toru Iwatani.  (source)
    unabridged = not shortened or reduced in scope
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unabridged means not and reversed the meaning of abridged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He was now adding a new clause to its pages: "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade …."  (source)
    abridging = reducing
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    In war, the terror, the compression of eschatological questions, the abridgement of the laws of man, the lack of sense in it, the confusion, the entropy....All combine to demolish completely the meaning and integrity of numbers.†  (source)
    abridgement = shortened book; or something reduced in scope while retaining essential elements
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use abridgment.
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    Well, I'm an abridger, so I'm entitled to a few ideas of my own.†  (source)
    abridger = one who shortens a book; or reduces something in scope while retaining essential elements
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    *j [Footnote i: It is perfectly clear, says Mr. Story ("Commentaries," p.503, or in the large edition Section 1379), that any law which enlarges, abridges, or in any manner changes the intention of the parties, resulting from the stipulations in the contract, necessarily impairs it.†  (source)
    abridges = shortens; or reduces in scope while retaining essential elements
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    j. Abridgments, as /stage/ (for /stage-coach/), /turnpike/ (for /turnpike-road/), /spry/ (for /sprightly/), /to conduct/ (for /to conduct one's self/).†  (source)
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    It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince.†  (source)
    abridgements = steps taken to shorten something without removing essential elements
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