† unconcludingadj.
Obsolete.
Inconclusive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adjective] > lacking conclusion
unconcludent1634
unconcludablea1640
unconcluding1646
unconcludible1647
unconclusive1657
1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 200 You are too wise to claime by [Tu es Petrus] or any other so unconcluding an argument.
1662 H. More Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. iii The Author's Excuse for his omitting..to confute the unconcluding Reasons some use for the proof of a God.
1713 E. Calamy Abridgm. Baxter's Life & Times xiii. 356 He shews his arguments both ad Rem and ad Hominem to be unconcluding.
Derivatives
Obsolete.† unconˈcludingness n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > lack of conclusion
unconcludingness1647
unconclusiveness1723
inconclusion1847
1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική vi. 110 The uncertainty of the truth of its decrees, by reason of the unconcludingnesse of the Arguments brought to attest it.
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist vi. 436 The unconcludingness of the Analytical Experiments vulgarly Relyed on.
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