Now, that, my dear reader, is called abridgement, and it is frowned upon in literary circles. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
535 Here some abridgement is necessary, for we have another recital of what has been told more than once. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I see "abridgement" on a book, I think, well I'm not getting the real deal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
I don't like the abridgement of a bed-rock principle. From Wordnik.com. [Myles Brand: Fantasy Leagues May be Less Than They Seem] Reference
M. du Chaillu further abridged this abridgement in his. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Rouen to St Andrews with his own approval and abridgement. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
And so I'm very concerned about any abridgement of the Second Amendment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2005] Reference
Is it an unconstitutional abridgement of the right to keep and bear arms?. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Reception] Reference
"There - fore to me falls responsibility for this abridgement o 'the truce.". From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
Yet you have the circus there talking about yet more abridgement of your rights. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Spokesman Confirms Network Chose "Diamonds And Pearls" Question] Reference
Is this a matter of principle or is it simply an abridgement of your right to know?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005] Reference
This is a one-volume abridgement of his monumental three-volume biography of Keynes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2009] Reference
In general, it is an abridgement of earlier records, though a few new facts are found. From Wordnik.com. [Assyrian Historiography] Reference
It is the wish of the learned in the world to possess the details and the abridgement. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Harm would be the result of the Fairness Doctrin, an abridgement of free speech rights. From Wordnik.com. [Dividing America with Hate] Reference
And of course, the suppression of hate speech would ab -- require an abridgement of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society] Reference
The work which is now presented to the public, is not, strictly speaking, an abridgement. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
But don't you know, she's screaming about prejudice and abridgement of her "right" to drive. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
But more than that, some abridgement of our civil liberties, until we get the scourge eliminated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2001] Reference
And, the way it is proposed it should not cause any constitutional issues with abridgement of free speech. From Wordnik.com. [Frank A. Weil: Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference
I said, printing an abridgement of a work was allowed, which was only cutting the horns and tail off the cow. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
I also think what bothered me is the humorous nature both Carlson and Geist treated this abridgement of free speech. From Wordnik.com. ["Help what have I done?" The abridgement of free speech] Reference
An abridgement of the natural freedom of men, by the institutions of political societies, is vindicable only on this foot. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
But the method selected needed to act “neutrally” amongst the candidates and without an abridgement or discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Take a Look: Prof. Steven Freeman's Presentation On Stolen US Elections] Reference
Third, The “Institutes,” an abridgement in four books, containing the substance of all the laws in the elementary form. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference
While his hair was dressing, he enlarged his imagination and improved his morals by studying Doctor what's his name's abridgement of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
"Newt Gingrich, this serial adulterer, is trying to get you people ready to accept the further abridgement of your civil liberties.". From Wordnik.com. [Why isn't Mainstream Media Skewering GIngrich for Anti Free-Speech Remarks?] Reference
The high-souled Vyasa composed these hundred parvas of which the above is only an abridgement: having distributed them into eighteen, the son of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The second thing we have to say is this -- that this abridgement of their liberty is a duty more especially incumbent upon all who are possessed of influence. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
His story is eventful, and we will give the reader an abridgement of it, as it was told by himself, in his narrative, first published in a New England newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
This is a point that Je Rinpoche made repeatedly, saying, The purpose of having personal advice instruction is to have a digestible abridgement (of the teachings). From Wordnik.com. [Speech to the Second Gelug Conference] Reference
It is the initial letter of the tetragrammaton, and is often used, especially enclosed within a triangle, as a substitute for, or an abridgement of, that sacred word. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Regulatory Juggernaut] Reference
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