in extenso
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
At full length; unabbreviated.
Example Sentences
- "I had to quote all these passages in extenso."
- "Mr. Brett does not follow the examples set by White and Tudor and Smith of printing his leading cases in extenso."
- "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."
- "When read in extenso and without translation, the choice of words, style and sentiment of the letters reflect the influence on the writers […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin in extenso.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: in extenso