In the former case I should have to think of Abbreviating that existence.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
It would be out of the question to have one person Abbreviating Alabama one way and another person another.
"Paul and the Printing Press"
Sara Ware Bassett
But the Florentines, in accordance with a custom of Abbreviating names which they practised then as they do now, called him not Jacopo, but Lapo, all his life, for he settled permanently in that city with all his family.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari