Definition of "abridgment" []

• The act of abridging or the state of being abridged. (noun)
• A written text that has been abridged. (noun)

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• "What is it with the Americans and word abridgment?"
• "His text-book in the instruction of the monks, was the theological treatise of St. Anthony of Padua, translated into Arabic; of which he made an abridgment, that is still used among the Maronites."
• "This is an abridgment of the history of Israel's provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor.x. 5, &c.); for these things were written for our admonition, that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them."