concision
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editconcision (countable and uncountable, plural concisions)
- Conciseness; brevity or terseness.
- A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments.
- A cutting off; a division; a schism or faction.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- those of the Concision who made it
- Mutilation.
- (Christianity) penile mutilation, emasculation (used as a polemical term in Paul's epistles)
Synonyms
edit- (conciseness): laconicism, succinctness; see also Thesaurus:succinctness
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin concīsiōnem.
Noun
editconcision f (plural concisions)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “concision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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