[f. SUMMARY a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being summary.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 386. A mode that by its summariness forms the most striking contrast to the regular equity mode.
1890. Spectator, 26 April, 584/2. The summariness which has always characterised English criminal jurisprudence.
