The phrase "abridgement from" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing a reduction or summary derived from a larger work or text.
Example: "The abridgement from the original novel allowed readers to grasp the main themes without the lengthy details."
Alternatives: "summary of" or "excerpt from".
The Simplified Spelling Board, endorsed by Theodore Roosevelt, had excised the extra "e" from "abridgement".
To recover his losses, Lawrence was forced to authorise yet another abridgement for the general public.
This month we reproduce an abridgement of Chapter 18 from his monograph, "The Hip and its Diseases" [ 5], published in 1884 (Fig. 2).
The defendants argued that his abridgement must be considered separate from the original work published by Gyles.
But like much incidental music, the evening as an aggregate suffered from a sense of abridgement, passing quickly and offering small tastes of things you would have liked to hear more of.
The first years of retirement saw a flurry of work, from a translation and abridgement (in partnership with his wife) of Alexandre Dumas' encyclopedia of food - Dumas On Food (1978), to the publication of his North Atlantic Seafood (1979), to putting in place, in 1978, a deal with Oxford University Press to commence his magnum opus, The Oxford Companion To Food, not to see the light until 1999.
This concept of fair abridgement eventually evolved through common law, initiated from Gyles v Wilcox, into the current concept of fair use.
Meese presents a series of historical and contemporary examples, from nineteenth-century cases of book abridgement to recent controversies over the reuse of Instagram photos.
Another page comes from the magnificent Chingiz-Nameh, an abridgement of an early 14th-century Iranian chronicle, which was commissioned in the late 16th century by Akbar, the Moghul emperor of Hindustan.
The proposed "Scripture Lessons" became Trimmer's An Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families which was an anthology of selections from the Bible.
