conciseness

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Conciseness in art is a necessity and a grace," he told a younger painter "Cultivate your memory; for nature will never give you more than information.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conciseness, which is an article of faith to them, leads American journalists to invent new words, to forge a vocabulary which lends a most vivid new hue to their argot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chief Points in the Ptolemaick and Copernican Hypothesis are described with great Conciseness and Perspicuity, and at the same time dressed in very pleasing and poetical Images.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Conciseness in history, 11, 14, 16, 20, 36.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

Now Conciseness is not only to express ourselves in as few Words as we can, but the Excellency of the Language shews itself, if those few Words are composed of few Syllables.

From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William