[a. F. exactitude, f. exact: see EXACT a. and -TUDE.] The quality of being exact; attention to minutiæ, accuracy of detail, precision. † Also (as in Fr.) = EXACTNESS, perfect correctness (of a statement).
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist., V. 132. There is … in virtue, an exactitude and steadiness or rather a kind of stiffness.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., I. xi. 440. The weight of the balloon determined with the most scrupulous exactitude.
1825. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 419. I have no doubt of the exactitude of the statement in your letter.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, I. 189. Performing the initial duties to her dead with the awe and exactitude that belong to religious rites.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 153. To occupy himself with the exactitudes of science.
