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compendiousness|kəmˈpɛndɪəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Compendious quality or form, comprehensiveness, conciseness, brevity.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxxi. (1495) 368 All thoffice of the day is ended vnder compendiousnes of moste shorte Euynsonge. 1526Tindale N.T. Ep. to Rdr., To bring to compendiousness that which is now translated at the length. 1561Eden Arte of Nauig. A ij b, I..haue brought the arte of Nauigation into a briefe compendiousnesse. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 146 The inviting easiness and compendiousness of this Assertion. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 122 This outward ease and swift compendiousness of speech. |