abridgement

noun

1. a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
2. the act or process of abridging.
3. the state of being abridged.
4. reduction or curtailment: abridgment of civil rights.

noun

1. a shortened version of a written work
2. the act of abridging or state of being abridged

n.

late 15c., from Old French abregement “shortening, abbreviation,” from abregier (see abridge).