in extenso
Americanadverb
adverb
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The impression of ordinariness is reinforced by his chatty letters to Knightley, which are cited in extenso.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I omitted to ask if it can be explained why Myler Magrath, in his letter of 24th June, 1592, given in extenso by Father Meehan in Duffy's Hib.
Few persons have had a more extended experience in collecting Coleoptera than Mr. E. A. Schwarz, one of my assistants, and the following account has been prepared by him at my request and is given in extenso.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
So strongly indeed was this fact impressed upon me, when I first detected it, that I shall perhaps be excused for recapitulating in extenso the few reflexions which then suggested themselves to my mind.
From On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Wollaston, Thomas Vernon
In the advanced course we shall have to return to this subject, and shall there refer in extenso to the views of the Stoics.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
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