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exactitude|ɛgˈzæktɪtjuːd|
[a. F. exactitude, f. exact: see exact a. and -tude.]
The quality of being exact; attention to minutiæ, accuracy of detail, precision. † Also (as in Fr.) = exactness, perfect correctness (of a statement).
1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. V. 132 There is..in virtue, an exactitude and steadiness or rather a kind of stiffness. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 440 The weight of the balloon determined with the most scrupulous exactitude. 1825T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 419, I have no doubt of the exactitude of the statement in your letter. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 87 Performing the initial duties to her dead with the awe and exactitude that belong to religious rites. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 153 To occupy himself with the exactitudes of science. |