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Definition of verbatim:

  • (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
  • (adverb) using exactly the same words

Sentence Examples:

I have copied this verbatim in the diary, because I think it is one of the most perfect and thoughtful sentences I have ever written.

I think that Norris Vine is waiting for the moment when he can do so with the greatest dramatic effect, to fill his rotten paper with a verbatim copy of that document.

And he immediately moved for leave to bring in a new bill, which was verbatim the same with the amended bill sent down by the Lords.

We find it in a sporting poem, and it deserves to be quoted verbatim as a record of the royal kitchen of the fourteenth century.

If there is to be this freedom in inventing unknown documents, reproducing almost verbatim the features of known ones, sober criticism is at an end.

Essentially, anyone is free to copy, distribute, or perform this copyrighted work for non-commercial uses only, so long as the work is preserved verbatim and is attributed to the author.

Mentally she recorded his exact words with the idea in her mind of repeating what he had said verbatim to her chief.

I may note here, in passing, that we printed our edition verbatim from that issued by James Watson, not knowing that various editions were in circulation.

It was only after persistent questioning by reporters, that Mr Singh to come out with an in verbatim response, reading it out from the medical report.

To our astonishment, the next morning, a verbatim report of all that was said appeared in one of the leading papers, with most respectful comments.

Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses, which, after a little pause, he repeated verbatim.

The theory of the mental mechanisms and evolution of these states is given in the attached quotation, which is taken verbatim from Clark's paper.

There was no verbatim report, but the room was crowded with members who had come to hear the new Minister.

Well, I have the verbatim reports of the trial in Bombay here in this envelope and I want you to read them carefully through and give me your opinion.

A large sheet was started at this period of his life, in which all the important speeches of Parliament were to be reported verbatim for future reference.

As the following pages contain a verbatim reprint of the official report of the trial, published by permission of the judges, it is only necessary here briefly to refer to the proceedings.

Scott places passages here in quotation marks, the original in "The Correspondent" has no such marks, nor are the passages quoted verbatim from the pamphlet referred to.

The children may then be left to study it so that they may individually on the next day recite it verbatim.

If you use this system at lectures you can soon come surprisingly near to a verbatim report which will preserve something more than bare facts.

In justice to myself, I therefore give the entries in Thorpe's Catalog verbatim as they occur.

He did not, as a rule, fully write them, and the art of taking down verbatim the utterances of public speakers had not yet been invented.

Where the authorship is known, and the productions have been given verbatim, the source, if not the pen of the editor, has been indicated.

Of some dozens of eminent Orientalists, no two agree, even in their verbatim translation of Sanskrit texts.

He must have repeated Johnny's words verbatim, for Sudden did not insist upon the interview, and no one else came near him.

He may well be required to train his memory to accuracy by learning certain assignments verbatim.

I stirred not, but sat silently to listen to their curious conversation, which I now proceed to give verbatim.

It never will be known now what this plant of grace intimated precisely to his colleagues, but the general impression was at the time that the captain's message had not been conveyed verbatim.

He even generously desired me to give him an outline of what I sought, and I was pleased to see afterward, that he had inserted my notice verbatim.

The interview that succeeded, had it been reported verbatim, deserved to be recorded in local history.

Reported verbatim his addresses read as though they had been composed and written with the utmost care, so precise and correct was the language and so consecutive the matter.

In using this method, when a particularly important bit of information is met, it should be set down very carefully, usually verbatim, as it may be quoted exactly in the speech.

It should be cultivated in connection with the powers of understanding and expression, but it is not economical to commit a speech verbatim for delivery.

To urge trifling differences is absurd, for Justin, if he desired to make himself understood, could not have quoted the passage verbatim, or anything like it.

I wish I had a copy of that Order in my hands now in order that I might quote it verbatim here.

Lights shone until late hours and flushed faces bent earnestly over text books as though trying to absorb their contents verbatim.

The minutes of the proceedings were taken down, and my remarks placed verbatim among the records of the Expedition.

I regret that we are unable to give a verbatim report of his talk, with the names of the varieties, but this information must be secured from him at some later time.

They passed it through both houses unanimously, and the next day I published the bill verbatim and all the proceedings in our paper.

We do not often have to commit to memory verbatim, but when we do, it is important that we should know the most economical way.

The pupil in a history class may be able to recite whole pages of the text almost verbatim, but when questioned as to the meaning of the events and facts show very little knowledge about them.

The original notices are quoted verbatim; for the remainder of the text the present writer is responsible.

Without disguising anything more than the addresses of these puffing worthies, we shall quote verbatim a few paragraphs from their productions.

The facts and the words of the speakers are taken almost verbatim from Pike's 'Historical Anecdotes.'

The resolutions which he presented at this meeting were not only voted by the town, but attracted great attention throughout the province, and were adopted verbatim by more than forty different towns.

My "awful examples" are verbatim excerpts from manuscripts which have passed through my hands; their authorship is concealed for obvious reasons.

Little progress was made at first, but by steady perseverance that habit of attention became powerful, and the sermon was at length repeated almost verbatim.

Most notably, the "Hints Concerning Public Education" is an essay by Priestley quoted verbatim in the text.

Extraordinary as such exclamations may appear when the circumstances and my own presence are considered, I have repeated them verbatim.

It would not be easy to give a verbatim report of the proceedings which followed, for each party was evidently more attentive to what fell from the other side than to what fell from its own.

This account has the immense advantage of being taken verbatim from Colonel Jones' letter just received by me.

I will now quote verbatim from the matron's letter, written on the morning of her experiences.

We will give the commencement of his deposition verbatim, as he is one of a class that is fast disappearing from the face of the waters.

Again it is probable that the interpreter did not give this speech verbatim, for while he was delivering it the Mahdi was scanning the features of the group of prisoners with a calm but keen eye.

He not only communicated the substance, but a verbatim copy of the letter itself, together with a copy of the appendix, to each of the Houses.

When I returned home, I wrote to the good father that he had made what I had written a part of his sermon, reciting it verbatim as I had written it.

The following is taken verbatim from a prominent newspaper of 1869, and is a very excellent illustration of the style of writing prevalent at that time.

There have even been persons to whom one single reading of any production was sufficient to enable them to repeat it verbatim.

We prefer to print verbatim, knowing that our readers will readily forgive the few errors into which the illustrious writer has fallen, through ignorance of our language.

I stopped typing on his office machine which he had permitted me to use to take verbatim notes of the interview and waited while he thought.

I shall, therefore, content myself with publishing verbatim two of the Colonel's own letters.

I repeated my orders verbatim, though the cutting wind made it difficult to open one's mouth.

Anybody can see that it is something more than a verbatim report, but where he left off and where I began must be left to the acute discrimination of the reader who may be interested in the problem.

I was impatient to see the prescription, and found it almost verbatim the same he had sent to me; although I am persuaded there is a very essential difference between our disorders.

The edition of 1813 is a verbatim reprint of the first and second articles of that of 1702.

I determined to repeat to her, as nearly as possible, verbatim, the whole conversation which had taken place in the greenhouse.

This she did by repeating to me as far as possible, verbatim, what she heard, and by showing me how I could take part in the conversation.

It had been copied verbatim by the old Squire, and was no doubt a properly binding and effective will.

A member may draft a bill, which the governor must lay, verbatim, on the council table, with his reasons for refusing to propose it.

Being in this conversational form, its details could only have been preserved by verbatim report.

This statement is made in lieu of an accurate transcript of the proceedings, or a verbatim report of the resolution as adopted, neither of which is available.

This, of course, does not apply to prominent men who are used to being interviewed and prefer to have their remarks taken down verbatim.

I cannot give the substance of this address, or any portion of it, verbatim as on former occasions, for I have not the manuscript.

Apologizing therefore to the editor for the liberty I have taken, I reprint the Star account verbatim.

There was no need of having the book before us; Coleridge had read it in the morning and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.

Many of these dictates he embodied in words, a few of which I shall take the liberty of quoting verbatim.

We give it verbatim, rejoicing that we may substitute an official report for our own narrative.

He cited three instances, and as they are themselves interesting, we copy them verbatim from his notes.

For the rest, the center of the paper was occupied by a four-page supplement, with portraits, describing fully, and reporting verbatim the Albert Hall services.

When writing their own information paragraphs, subordinate commanders do not necessarily copy verbatim the information contained in the order of their superior.

This was the substance of what she said, for I cannot set it all down verbatim; after so many years my memory fails me.

As it is, we will venture to produce a few only out of many, selecting not always the most important, but those which can be best exhibited verbatim in a short extract.

They are given verbatim, from the original version, as it seems to me the flavor of the language must add to the flavor of the cakes.

The speaker may use the substance of this talk in his own language, or, commit it to memory and reproduce it verbatim.

The first winter I had a couple of papers a year old, and, when the brigade went up to the fort, I could almost repeat them verbatim.

I can best describe the service of the first named of these commands by copying, verbatim, from the diary of a gallant field officer of the regiment.

I did not have a recording device available and did not attempt to record entire interviews verbatim.

And calling to his aid a very excellent memory, he gave a verbatim account of the conversation that had passed between him and the old woman.

I took down the following incident verbatim (save for proper names) from lips that I know to be truthful.

The lawyers in each state have devised forms for such blanks, sometimes peculiar in some points to the particular state, and sometimes copied verbatim from those in use elsewhere.

Joe repeated the words almost verbatim, and then told aunt Dorcas all the details of the flight, up to the moment they arrived at her home.

"By this method one can, in an hour a day for two or three months, become so expert as to report a lecture verbatim."

Pratt, now Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas: Whose Speeches are all printed as nearly verbatim as possible.

On looking up my old journals, I found it was slighter than I imagined; but, such as it is, I give it almost verbatim from my diary.

There have been reporters here every day for all the different papers, and they are giving my sermons verbatim in one paper.

I copy it verbatim from a wedding notice of my own written by a western journalist who is now at the Old Woman's Home.

Our first word from Susan was a day letter, telephoned to me from the telegraph office, though I at once demanded the delivery of a verbatim copy by messenger.

Bolton, and although they must be examined and analyzed with care, only a few passages need to be reproduced verbatim.

Let me repeat verbatim a conversation that occurred on a recent rainy night, the date of an important concert.

We shall notice every salient point in his twenty-six pages, and shall quote him verbatim as far as possible.

Edward was to report what General Grant and the President said, and was instructed to give the President's speech verbatim.