[f. ACCURATE a. + -NESS.] The quality of being accurate; careful exactness; precision, nicety. (More properly a quality of a person, while ACCURACY is a state of a thing; the accurateness of an observer; the accuracy of his results.)
1644. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 55. Which being kept with all imaginable accurateness … seemed a Paradise.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), II. 289. Such his accurateness, as not only to tell the initial words in every of their books, but also to point at the place in each library where they are to be had.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. viii. 168. He was not so wanting in accurateness, but that he knew how to have exprest himself, had that been his meaning.
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth (1723), i. 7. As to the Certainty and Accurateness of my Observations, thus much may … be said.
1871. Standard, 1 Feb. Their shells were not fired with that accurateness upon which they so much pride themselves.
