concision
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]concision (countable and uncountable, plural concisions)
- Synonym of 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.
- Coordinate term: excision
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (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)
- Coordinate term: circumcision
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin concīsiōnem.
Noun
[edit]concision f (plural concisions)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: concision
Further reading
[edit]- “concision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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