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adv
in a brief and clearly expressed manner
He stated the argument concisely in a single paragraph.
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From concise + -ly. Concise derives from Latin concisus ('cut up, brief'), past participle of concidere ('to cut up, cut to pieces'), from com- (intensive) + caedere ('to cut').
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