As nouns the difference between abridgement and compend
is that abridgement is alternate form of lang=en while compend is a compendium; an epitome; a summary.
compend
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.
Related terms
* compendious
* compendium
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