a. (UN-1 7 and 5 b.] = INEXACT a.

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1758.  Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., I. 407, note. Dr. Mosheim’s account of the time of Nestorius’s death is perhaps unexact.

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1776.  S. 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?

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1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., ii. 137. The literalness of an unpoetic intellect … is always comparatively sterile and unexact.

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  So Unexactness, inexactness. rare1.

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1677.  Gilpin, Demonol., II. ix. 389. Satan here plays upon the unexactness of the Translation.

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