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Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but without the literary references.

Although it was more successful financially than the original 1828 edition and was reprinted many times, Noah Webster was critical of it.

Worcester and Goodrich's abridgment of Noah Webster's 1841 ( 1844 ) edition was printed, this time by Harper and Brothers of New York City, in 1844, with added words as an appendix.