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Definition of Precisionists
1. precisionist [n] - See also: precisionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precisionists
Literary usage of Precisionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1910)
""It is hard to believe that the sensitive precisionists of THE BOOKMAN are not
shamming," comments the Star. "They must know the word if only to disapprove ..."
2. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"... quite harmless in themselves, but condemned by the rigid precisionists among
whom he lived, and for whose opinions he had great respect. ..."
3. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"He thought that this effect was too small to measure, an opinion which was received
by eighteenth-century precisionists as a challenge. ..."
4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"He thought that this effect was too small to measure, an opinion which was received
by eighteenth-century precisionists as a challenge. ..."
5. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"He thought that this effect was too small to measure, an opinion which was received
by eighteenth-century precisionists as a challenge. ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"It is amidst the growing prevalence of such manners that contemporary writers—themselves
no precisionists in religion—begin to publish their complaints with ..."
7. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... called precisionists, from their preciseness in matters called " indifferent."
Andrew Fuller named them ..."
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