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in extenso

American  
[in eks-ten-soh, in ik-sten-soh] / ɪn ɛksˈtɛn soʊ, ɪn ɪkˈstɛn soʊ /

adverb

Latin.
  1. at full length.


in extenso British  
/ ɪn ɪkˈstɛnsəʊ /

adverb

  1. at full length

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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

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 C. V. Riley

I will take first the opinion of Professor Huxley, quoted in extenso, and then consider it somewhat more carefully than seemed necessary in the text.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

The rules of this association are here given in extenso, and sufficiently explain the raison d’être.

From Boating by W. B. Woodgate

But after the proceedings in extenso had become known, a papal brief was issued which burdened the permission to hold further yearly assemblies with such conditions as must have made them utterly fruitless.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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