Concision gives energy, but it also adds restraint.

Shortness N. shortness &c adj.; brevity; littleness &c 193; a span. shortening &c v.; abbreviation, abbreviature^; abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation^; reduction &c (contraction) 195; epitome &c (compendium) 596. elision, ellipsis; conciseness &c (in style)

The superb Virgilian economy is the thing for an epic poet now; the concision, the scrupulousness, the loading of every word with something appreciable of the whole significance.

It has perhaps learned them too well; never were concision, and the loading of each word with heavy duties, so thoroughly practised.

There is something slightly repellent in the stern concision, the "imperious brevity," of the Manual.

The tendency of his mind would be towards concision, and he would by degrees extend his desire for concision into the twilight and the night of symbolism.' 'A sort of constipated Browning,' said Phillips.

The tendency of his mind would be towards concision, and he would by degrees extend his desire for concision into the twilight and the night of symbolism.' 'A sort of constipated Browning,' said Phillips.

Both these are, of course, used only in those forms of expression in which be is proper; as, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Partly, because the gravity and concision of Thucydides are of specially wholesome example in these days of over-coloured and over-voluminous narrative; partly, because he knows how to invest the wreck and overthrow of those small states with the pathos and dignity of mighty imperial fall; but most of all, for the sake of the wise sentences that are sown with apt but not unsparing hand through the progress of the story.

Little by little, the arcana of this art, most neglected of all, was revealed to Des Esseintes who could now read this language, as diversified and insinuating as that of literature, this style with its unexpected concision under its vague flowing appearance.