in extenso en · ADV
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin in extenso.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) At full length; unabbreviated.
Mr. Brett does not follow the examples set by White and Tudor and Smith of printing his leading cases in extenso.
1887, The Law Quarterly Review, page 464:I had to quote all these passages in extenso.
When read in extenso and without translation, the choice of words, style and sentiment of the letters reflect the influence on the writers […]
1925, Tromsø Museums skrifter, Tromsø museum, page 89:There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero. […] Nothing has been too small to escape him, and you may be sure that if Charles Strickland left a laundry bill unpaid it will be given you in extenso, and if he forebore to return a borrowed half-crown no detail of the transaction will be omitted.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 1”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
Antonyms
Translations (11)
hi आद्योपांत (at full length) · es por largo (at full length) · es in extenso (at full length) · hi संपूर्णतया (at full length) · hi पूर्णतः (at full length) · hi सविस्तार (at full length) · ru по́лностью (at full length) · fr in extenso (at full length) · ru досло́вно (at full length) · es por extenso (at full length) · sv in extenso (at full length)