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Concision   Listen
noun
Concision  n.  A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Concision" Quotes from Famous Books



... /n./ [poss. fr. slang 'creature feature' for a horror movie] 1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or {taste}. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... poetic—an intense subtility of mind combined with much order. He would be full of little habits. He would have note-books of a special kind in which to enter his ideas. The tendency of his mind would be towards concision, and he would by degrees extend his desire for concision into the twilight and the ...
— Vain Fortune • George Moore



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