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Definition of Abridging
1. abridge [v] - See also: abridge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abridging
Literary usage of Abridging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on by George Payn Quackenbos (1874)
"EXERCISE IN abridging. Abridge, and present in your own words, ... What is meant
by abridging ? What other name is sometimes given to this process ? ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"Statutes abridging and enlarging the common law. 139140. Taking qualities and
incidents from common law. 141-144 Otherwise construed by common law. 145146. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... stu- as they doubtless will be, by the good dying their personal comfort,—and
in sense of the country gentlemen who abridging their hours of labour. ..."
4. The Constitution of the United States by United States, Robert Desty, Albert J. Brunner (1884)
"[ARTICLE I] Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of ..."
5. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the later war with Spain were but some of the causes
which, by abridging the chances for gain, imperilled the plans of its ..."
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