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nounprecisianism (countable and uncountable, plural precisianisms)
plural precisianisms
- countableuncountableThe quality or state of being a precisian
they who in other matters express so little feare either of God or man , should in this one particular outstripp all precisianism with thir scruples and cases
1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLCSynonyms: pedantry, Puritanism
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nounThe quality or state of being a precisian
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