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indefinitive, a. rare.|ɪndɪˈfɪnɪtɪv|
[f. in-3 + definitive.]
Not definitive; not characterized by definition or limitation; indeterminate, indefinite.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 125 From the point of the first Trauesse next adioyning, is drawne an indefinitiue line. 1850J. H. Newman Diffic. Anglic. 82 A school of opinion..fixed in its principles, indefinitive and progressive in their range.
Hence indeˈfinitively adv., without definition or limitation; indeˈfinitiveness, vagueness.
1621Sanderson Twelve Serm. (1637) 59 Ordinarily in our Sermons we indefinitively condemne as evill, swearing, and gaming for money. 1795Ann. Reg. App. Chron. 92 They are all elected for two years, and may be immediately and indefinitively re-elected. a1849Poe Marginalia Wks. 1864 III. 587 If the author did not deliberately propose to himself a suggestive indefinitiveness of meaning. |