in extenso

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin in extenso.

Adverb

in extenso (not comparable)

1. At full length.
   • 1887, The Law Quarterly Review, page 464:

     Mr. Brett does not follow the examples set by White and Tudor and Smith of printing his leading cases in extenso.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 1”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero. […] Nothing has been too small to escape him, and you may be sure that if Charles Strickland left a laundry bill unpaid it will be given you in extenso, and if he forebore to return a borrowed half-crown no detail of the transaction will be omitted.

   • 1925, Tromsø Museums skrifter, Tromsø museum, page 89:

     When read in extenso and without translation, the choice of words, style and sentiment of the letters reflect the influence on the writers […]

Translations

at full length

• Hindi: आद्योपांत (hi) (ādyopānt), पूर्णतः (hi) (pūrṇataḥ), सविस्तार (savistār), संपूर्णतया (hi) (sampūrṇatyā)
• Russian: по́лностью (ru) (pólnostʹju), досло́вно (ru) (doslóvno)
• Swedish: in extenso (sv)

Anagrams

• extension