单词 | summariness |
释义 | summarinessn. The quality or state of being brief, succinct, or quick; abruptness, haste. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [noun] > quality of being summary summariness1791 1791 T. Goold Vindic. E. Burke's Refl. (Dublin ed.) 16 The summariness of their proceedings, their ill-timed expedition in a matter that so highly involved the national honor, would justify an honest man, for including them in the general guilt. 1890 Spectator 26 Apr. 584/2 The summariness which has always characterised English criminal jurisprudence. 1926 Harvard Law Rev. 40 238 The subject is treated with a summariness which the state of the authorities hardly warrants. 1996 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Nov. 5 What none of the parents could understand was the summariness of the dismissal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1791 |
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