exactitude
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French exactitude, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due" or "measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).
NounEdit
exactitude (countable and uncountable, plural exactitudes)
- Exactness, accuracy; attention to small details.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 44, [1]
- […] when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.
- 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Chapter 4, [2]
- He paced stiffly, looking with extreme exactitude at Lingard's face; looking neither to the right nor to the left but at the face only, as if there was nothing in the world but those features familiar and dreaded;
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Appendix: The Principles of Newspeak [3]
- In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 44, [1]
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TranslationsEdit
accuracy; attention to small details.
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Further readingEdit
- exactitude in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- exactitude at OneLook Dictionary Search
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd/
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Audio (France) (file) - Rhymes: -yd
- Homophone: exactitudes
NounEdit
exactitude f (plural exactitudes)
Further readingEdit
- “exactitude” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).