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Which one is used in the context of an execution?



Summary. "The prisoners were executed in a summary fashion."

Also means brief, concise. I guess a summary execution (which means without trial if I understand correctly) is a briefer process than an execution with a trial…

Would also properly qualify the rejection of an extension from the Chrome store, I guess, to go back to the main topic.

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/sommaire

(yes, found out by translating from French :-) - sommaire also means basic, rudimentary, now I wonder what made us use this word for executions - the brevity, or the basic aspect, sounded like the latter to me in history lessons)


Merci pour la leçon :)


Avec plaisir ! ah ah

Thanks to wordreference above all. You might have meant it as a joke initially, but I learned something.


I meant it half joking but I'm also in the process of learning French so I learned something too.


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