indefiniteness

Example Sentences

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This is exactly the kind of indefiniteness which New York courts do not allow to form the terms of a binding contract.”

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021

One irony is that notwithstanding his reputation, Mr. Cruz tends to nurture a careful strategic indefiniteness about his positions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2016

Were Alice’s ideas to make it over that first hurdle, they would still be subject to challenges for obviousness, lack of novelty or indefiniteness.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014

The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions."

From Time Magazine Archive

The extreme indefiniteness with which the term "gold standard" is used has so befogged the relation which gold money bears to industry and commerce that people lose sight of the essential feature of that relation.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)