abridgment has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) a shortened version of a written work

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff 's abridgment for RCA_Victor ) I find the cleaner , less razor edged monophonic version , for all its lack of big stage spaciousness , the more aurally tolerable - but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies .

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