Brachylogy

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  • noun. Brevity of speech; conciseness.
  • noun. A shortened or condensed phrase or expression.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In rhetoric and grammar, brevity of diction; a concise or abridged form of expression; especially, non-repetition or omission of a word when its repetition or use would be necessary to complete the grammatical construction: as, I do not think so now, but I have (thought so); this is as good (as) or better than that.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Conciseness of expression; brevity.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. concise speech; laconism
  • noun. Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!" (brachyology).
    • Word Usage
    "A similar brachylogy at _EP_ I iv 31 'iunctior Haemonia est _Ponto_ quam Roma"
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    apokoinou  aposiopesis  asyndeton  compendious comparison  praegnans constructio  
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