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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Brevities

[L.

brevitas

, fr.

brevis

short: cf. F.

brièvité

. See

Shortness of duration; briefness of time;

as, the

brevity

of human life

Contraction into few words; conciseness.

Brevity

is the soul of wit.

Shakespeare

This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant

brevity

and simplicity.

Bp. Porteus.

Syn. – Shortness; conciseness; succinctness; terseness.

Noun.

[L. brevitas, from brevis, short. See Brief.]

Shortness; applied to time; as the brevity of human life.

Shortness; conciseness; contraction into few words; applied to discourses or writings.