Sample Sentences for
abridge
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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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    Options for My Hypothetical Future Recovery Scenario (Abridged)  (source)
    Abridged = shortened; or reduced in scope while retaining essential elements
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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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    in that case I must abridge.†  (source)
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    We have to read an abridgment, and it's still a hundred and sixty pages long.†  (source)
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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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    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)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use abridgment.
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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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    And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.†  (source)
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    He prefers talking about the characteristics of race, the physical conformation of the country, or the genius of civilization, which abridges his own labors, and satisfies his reader far better at less cost.†  (source)
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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)
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