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Abridger
//əˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɚ// noun
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Noun
- 1 One who abridges, a person who shortens written works.
"[…] while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them."
- 2 one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work wordnet
Etymology
From abridge + -er.
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