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单词 in a sum
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in a sum
a. Chiefly with verbs of speaking or writing: in a few words; briefly or succinctly. Also in †in a sum. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb]
shortlyc893
brieflya1300
shortc1374
in sumc1384
compendiously1398
in brief1423
roundlya1516
succinctly?1537
brief1557
succinct1593
abbreviately1599
compactly1603
laconically1631
presslya1637
compactedly1649
curtly1654
concisely1686
laconicly1709
straightforwardly1874
scantly1885
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short
at a (also one) wordOE
at few wordsOE
shortly1303
in short wordsc1380
oncec1384
in short and plainc1386
in sum?a1425
at short wordsa1450
at short1513
briefly?1521
in a word1522
in one word1522
with a word1522
summa1535
to be short1544
in (the) fine1545
in few1550
summarily1567
in a sum1574
in shorta1577
in brief1609
briefa1616
in a little1623
tout court1747
sans phrase1808
in a nutshell1822
in nuce1854
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. vii. 1 In sum, or litil wordis [a1425 L.V. schortli; L. summatim].
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. pr. iv. l. 357 Axest þou in somme of what gilt I am accused?
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Aii A treatyse..that shulde conteyne in somme the sentences of illumined doctours, concernyng perfeccion.
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) xix. 94/2 Eliphas taketh a generall sentence, and afterwarde specisyeth that thing by particular examples, whiche hee had spoken in a summe.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 339 To speake in summe more truely.
a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 418 [They] interrogat him if he appointed not his sone Richard, replyed in a sume, Yea.
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