Abridger

Quick meaning: Abridger is a noun meaning One who abridges, a person who shortens written works.

Meaning

One who abridges, a person who shortens written works.

Example Sentences

I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• abridgers

Synonyms for abridger

Depending on context, synonyms include summarizer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abbreviator, curtailer, abbreviater, extenuator, abstracter, abstractor.

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