Meaning of abridger | Babel Free

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One who abridges, a person who shortens written works.

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“[…] while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish⟳ of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have⟳ only genius, wit, and taste⟳ to recommend⟳ them.”

“I am an abridger. When I tell⟳ people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have⟳ to explain⟳. What I do is take⟳ the written work⟳ of other people and compress it.”

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