Usage examples (34)

• Now, that, my dear reader, is called abridgement, and it is frowned upon in literary circles.
• 535 Here some abridgement is necessary, for we have another recital of what has been told more than once.
• I see "abridgement" on a book, I think, well I'm not getting the real deal.
• This is referred to in the next passage, where Theseus speaks of the masque as an 'abridgement' for the evening, that is, an entertainment to shorten the hours.