All 6 Uses of
abridge
in
The Princess Bride
- All abridging remarks and other comments will be in this fancy italic type so you'll know.†
p. 46..5 *
- My father read it to me, and I just quick skimmed along, crossing out whole sections when I did the abridging, leaving everything just as it was in the original Morgenstern.†
p. 46..6
- My reply to her— This is me, and I'm not trying to be confusing, but the above paragraph that I'm cutting into now is verbatim Morgenstern; he was continually referring to his wife in the unabridged book, saying that she loved the next section or she thought that, all in all, the book was extraordinarily brilliant.†
p. 193..5
- If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go around sticking your own in.†
p. 194..1
- I spent my whole life thinking it ended that way, up until I did this abridgement.†
p. 357..1
- Well, I'm an abridger, so I'm entitled to a few ideas of my own.†
p. 357..8
Definition:
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(abridge) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements -- especially to a book