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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
terse/tɜːs/
▶adjective (terser, tersest) sparing in the use of words; abrupt.
– derivatives
tersely adverb,
terseness noun.
tersely adverb,
terseness noun.
– origin C17 (orig. ‘polished, trim’, hence ‘concise and to the point’): from L. tersus ‘wiped, polished’.
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