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- noun Plural form of
preciseness .
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Belford, to Lovelace, in praise of Mr. Hickman, ‘wear not soon off those little precisenesses, which the confident, if ever they had them, presently get over.’
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Modest or diffident men wear not soon off those little precisenesses, which the confident, if ever they had them, presently get above; because they are too confident to doubt any thing.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Modest or diffident men wear not soon off those little precisenesses, which the confident, if ever they had them, presently get above; because they are too confident to doubt any thing.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725
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