Meaning of abridgment in English

abridgment

noun

(also abridgement)

/əˈbrɪdʒ.mənt/ us

/əˈbrɪdʒ.mənt/

abridgment noun (SHORTER VERSION)

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[ C ]

a book, play, or piece of writing that has been made shorter by removing some details or less important information:

The books are abridgments of well-known classics.

In 1676 Bauthumley published an abridgement of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

[ U ]

the act of making a book, play, or piece of writing shorter by removing some details or information:

Drastic abridgment makes this story even more difficult to understand.

This version of the play is marred only by some awkward abridgement.

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I didn't want my work to be merely an abridgment of the hearings.
The document is an English abridgment of the Japanese original.
There seems to be a current enthusiasm for extreme abridgement.

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abridgment noun (REDUCTION OF RIGHTS)

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the act of reducing someone's freedom, rights, etc., or an instance of this:

He says there are laws which are completely unethical and an abridgment of freedom.

The measure establishes a dangerous precedent in the abridgement of human liberty.

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He called the spending limits an abridgment of a party's right to free political expression.
He wrote a research paper on the abridgment of the civil liberties in the United States.
Government secrecy pales in comparison to the secrecy and abridgements of free expression that exist in private companies.

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(Definition of abridgment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of abridgment

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He held that the abridgment of rights for the "common good" is never justifiable.

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For the abridgment of 1802 and the second full-length edition of 1810, however, he changed his tune completely.

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I wonder, however, if a flow chart can capture the metamorphoses of texts as they pass through successive editions, translations, abridgments, and compilations.

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I have made numerous modifications to facilitate the abridgment of the chapter.

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Most of these divergences can be classified as "abridgments" or "simplifications," especially in those tracts that represent distinctively scholastic doctrines.

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There is an abridgment of parliamentary power that is not necessary.

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Those are interesting arguments, but they are arguments for further and further abridgment.

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It will therefore mean a considerable abridgment of official labour and expense.

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However, aside from a slight abridgment of the dialogue, this is the only major difference between the manga and the anime.

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