in extenso
Americanadverb
adverb
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More recently, Patrick McGuinness has produced a marvellous version of the elegy Mallarmé wrote for his dead son, "For Anatole's Tomb", and now with Peter Manson's The Poems in Verse we have a contemporary Mallarmé in extenso.
From The Guardian
On meeting the cardinal, he began by reading in extenso the angry despatch which he had received, not even omitting the epithets "turbulent and guilty priest" which the Consul applied to his eminence.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
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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.
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In a moment I recognized it as that of my dear old friend, John Powles, whose history I shall relate in extenso further on.
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