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What is brachylogy?

What is brachylogy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. concise speech; laconism
  2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!" (brachyology).
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It is interesting that it is in adverbial coordination that formal asymmetry obtains, where brachylogy is not a highly salient device elsewhere in Romance.
Another difficulty for a reader lies in his use of brachylogy.
The simplest fabrication procedure and the most classic method of free radical production were used to research the protein damage, demonstrating obvious virtues of brachylogy, rigor and precise.
Socrates uses brachylogy to undermine every discourse, long or short, rather than to express truths for which macrology would be less suitable.
A subject that is a part of an idiom may also be omitted by brachylogy.
Because of the close grammatical parallelism and the dependent relationship between the two or more units in brachylogy, one might expect such units to cohere into a single colon.

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