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undeˈcisive, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. = indecisive a. 1.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 132 The two Nations differing about the antiquity of their Language, made appeal to an undecisive experiment. 1769Junius' Lett. xxxv. (1788) 178 Undecisive qualifying measures will disgrace your government still more than open violence. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 24 The analyses..present different results, and consequently are undecisive. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. 291 At Air-Gialla..an undecisive conflict was fought. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 278 When a bull..from his neck Hath shaken out the undecisive axe.
2. = indecisive a. 2.
1780Mirror No. 104, My poor friend, naturally of an undecisive temper,..had accustomed himself to deliberate on every trifle. 1802Wolcot (P. Pindar) Pitt & Statue Wks. 1812 IV. 510 So very undecisive in decision, Leaving for future Chancery-traps provision.
Hence undeˈcisively adv.; undeˈcisiveness.
1771Macpherson Introd. Hist. Gt. Brit. 174 Their law⁓giver and prophets..speak very obscurely, as well as undecisively, upon the subject. 1778Ann. Reg., Hist. 30/2 The undecisiveness of the campaign had..occasioned a prodigious desertion on both sides. |