in extenso
advEtymology Borrowed from Latin in extenso.
1
At full length; unabbreviated.
- 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.1887, The Law Quarterly Review, page 464:
2 more examples
- 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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 1”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- When read in extenso and without translation, the choice of words, style and sentiment of the letters reflect the influence on the writers […]1925, Tromsø Museums skrifter, Tromsø museum, page 89: