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Literary notes about Precise (AI summary)

In literature, “precise” is employed to convey a sense of exactness that enhances both factual clarity and artistic nuance. Authors use it to denote an unambiguous choice of words or exact moments—as when a character’s “precise words” are recalled with deliberate care [1] or the moment of transformation is sharply defined [2, 3]. In technical descriptions and detailed observations, the term highlights meticulous measurements or ordered processes, such as fixed quantities or locations [4, 5, 6, 7]. Philosophical and analytical texts also invoke “precise” to signal a carefully bounded concept or rule whose limits are rigorously defined [8, 9, 10]. Thus, across genres, “precise” functions as a versatile marker of meticulous exactitude and clarity.
  1. “He had been so fortunate as to—I forget the precise words—one has no business to remember them.
    — from Emma by Jane Austen
  2. At that precise moment Mrs Verloc began to look upon herself as released from all earthly ties.
    — from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
  3. I THINK,” gasped poor Anne, who couldn’t have felt sure of her own name at that precise moment.
    — from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
  4. He contracted for its making at a fixed price, and weighed out a precise amount of gold to the contractor.
    — from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
  5. Its precise situation, forty-nine miles from Archelais, and thirty-two from Tyana, is fixed in the Itinerary of Antoninus, (p. 144, edit.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  6. The area of the field was thus something more than a quarter of an acre and less than one-third; to be more precise, .2914 of an acre.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  7. It was obviously trying to locate some precise spot in the ocean.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  8. Did my own " â priori " demand that precise solution from me?
    — from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  9. As I have had occasion to remark in several other instances, the indistinctness of the objection forbids a precise answer.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  10. But identity is a precise conception, and no word, in ordinary speech, stands for anything precise.
    — from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

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