in extenso

Borrowed from Latin in extenso.

in extenso (not comparable)

1. At full length; unabbreviated.
   • 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 […]

• extension

From Latin [Term?].

in extenso

1. in extenso

• “in extenso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024