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uneˈxact, a. [un-1 7 and 5 b.] = inexact a.
1758A. Maclaine Mosheim's Eccles. Hist. I. 407 note, Dr. Mosheim's account of the time of Nestorius's death is perhaps unexact. 1776S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleas. (1777) I. 153 How is it that so scrupulous a man in point of equity is so unexact a correspondent? 1862‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton) Nugae Crit. ii. 137 The literalness of an unpoetic intellect..is always comparatively sterile and unexact. So uneˈxactness, inexactness. rare—1.
1677Gilpin Demonol. ii. ix. 389 Satan here plays upon the unexactness of the Translation. |