1640. Hammond, Poor Man’s Tithing, Wks. 1684, IV. 554. Had the Promises been of any other sort,… the Apostles illation … had been utterly unconclusive, if not impertinent.
1672. H. Dodwell, Two Lett., Pref. C iij. There being no more politick way for betraying the Truth than to offer to defend it by unconclusive arguments.
Hence † Unconclusively adv., -ness. Obs.
1660. Coke, Justice Vind., 13. When a man talks unconclusively, they say he talks not sense.
1723. Mather, Vind. Bible, 209. The appearing unconclusiveness of the reasoning used in Scripture.
