[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Compendious quality or form, comprehensiveness, conciseness, brevity.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. xxxi. (1495), 368. All thoffice of the day is ended vnder compendiousnes of moste shorte Euynsonge.
1526. Tindale, N. T., Ep. to Rdr. To bring to compendiousness that which is now translated at the length.
1561. Eden, Arte of Nauig., A ij b. I … haue brought the arte of Nauigation into a briefe compendiousnesse.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., v. 146. The inviting easiness and compendiousness of this Assertion.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 122. This outward ease and swift compendiousness of speech.
