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compendiousness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being compendious; conciseness; brevity; terseness; comprehension within a narrow compass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being compendious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or quality of being compendious.

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Examples

  • No study, however, of this outward ease and swift compendiousness of speech will teach us the secret that was beneath it in Voltaire, an eye and a hand that never erred in hitting the exact mark of appropriateness in every order of prose and verse.

    Voltaire 2007

  • I will endeavor, my dearest Piso, to send you my opinion concerning Fate, written with all the clearness and compendiousness

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Its virtues were its compendiousness, its useful tables and explanations, its pragmatic, clear directions, and a certain sprightly and encouraging tone.

    American Pie Johnson, Diane 1997

  • Christ, and by compendiousness of grace being saved completely.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • The soldiers wear a proud and martial mien, conscious that beauty will reward them with her approving glances; not to mention that there are a few less influential motives to contribute to keep up an heroic spirit, such as the dread of being made to "ride the wooden horse" (a very disagreeable mode of equestrian exercise, -- hard riding, in the strictest sense), or of being "laid neck and heels," in a position of more compendiousness than comfort.

    Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Tyndale, in his revision, will "seek to bring to compendiousness that which is now translated at the length." [

    Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

  • The_ BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW _says: "In compendiousness, elegance, and scholarliness, the Globe Editions of Messrs. Macmillan surpass any popular series of our classics hitherto given to the public.

    Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879

  • The _BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW_ says: "In compendiousness, elegance, and scholarliness the Globe

    Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869

  • The BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW says: "In compendiousness, elegance, and scholarliness the Globe Editions of

    Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868

  • REVIEW _says: "In compendiousness, elegance, and scholarliness the

    Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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