approximative
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To man is denied supreme unity, but here he finds approximative unity.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
The ear is only a guide to the harmony of a Period, and often tempts us into the feebleness of expletives or approximative expressions for the sake of a cadence.
From The Principles of Success in Literature by George Henry Lewes
As we remarked before, these figures and valuations, which are sufficiently approximative of accuracy for any useful purpose, will take public men and economists, both here and in Spain, by surprise.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
Except with regard to Spain and the United States, most of the existing commercial statistics of Cuba, prior to 1899, are fragmentary and merely approximative.
From Cuba, Old and New by Albert G. (Albert Gardner) Robinson
From this point of view the knowledge of matter that our perception on one hand and science on the other give to us appears, no doubt, as approximative, but not as relative.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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