approximative

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Rosamond became serious too, and slightly meditative; in fact, she was going through many intricacies of lace-edging and hosiery and petticoat-tucking, in order to give an answer that would at least be approximative.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

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

There may therefore be room for debate as to the more or less approximative character of our concepts of the absolute.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various

And its escape is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, nor any contagium of scarlet-fever, nor any contagium of smallpox had arisen spontaneously within its limits.'

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

To man is denied supreme unity, but here he finds approximative unity.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto