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preciseness|prɪˈsaɪsnɪs|
[f. precise a. + -ness.]
The quality of being precise.
1. Definiteness; exactness; minuteness, precision.
1569Golding Heminges Post. Ded. 7 Obedience to bee performed according too the precisenesse of the word. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 293 Mainteining our opinion, with the precisenesse wherof the mindes of men are amased. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 342/1 In preciseness of Blazon..let it be called a Mill Rinde molined. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. ix. (1874) 153, I shall not tell with any preciseness where I was. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 29 A preciseness of definition which should exclude misunderstanding.
2. Strictness in behaviour, manners, morals, or religious observance; rigid propriety, primness; fastidiousness; scrupulousness, puritanical quality.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. E iij, I iudge it a no lesse vyce of curiositye to be in Reckelesness in lettynge a mans clothes fal of his backe, then in Preciseness to carie a mans head so like a malthorse for feare of ruffling his hear. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 644 Wee blame Puritanes for their affected singularitie and formall preciseness. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 12 (1619) 241 Godlines is made but a by-word, and a note of reproach..vnder the title of puritie and precisenesse. 1790C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 94 The discipline of several of the reformed churches, is in a stile of preciseness, which does not admit of any innocent amusement. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xviii, Dry experience, and prejudiced preciseness.
†b. Severity, strictness, rigorousness. Obs.
1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. xviii. (1591) 12 His too much precisenes did harme. 1600Holland Livy xxvii. xxxviii. 656 The Consuls tooke musters more streightly and with greater precisenesse, than any man could remember in former yeeres. 1651Biggs New Disp. §276 By this severity and precisenesse of rules. |