exactness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXACT'NESS, noun Accuracy; nicety; precision; as, to make experiments with exactness 1. Regularity; careful conformity to law or rules of propriety; as exactness of deportment. 2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as exactness in accounts or business.
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