slovo | definícia |
vagueness (encz) | vagueness,nejasnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Vagueness (gcide) | Vagueness \Vague"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being vague.
[1913 Webster] |
vagueness (wn) | vagueness
n 1: unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not
coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model
of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that
suggested little or no thought about what each might
convey"
2: indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the
swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner" |
VAGUENESS (bouvier) | VAGUENESS. Uncertainty.
2. Certainty is required in contracts, wills, pleadings, judgments, and
indeed in all the acts on which courts have to give a judgment, and if they
be vague, so as not to be understood, they are in general invalid. 5 B. & C.
583; 1 Russ. & M. 116 1 Ch. Pract. 123. A charge of "frequent intemperance"
and "habitual indolence" are vague and too general. 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. S.
530. See Certainty; Nonsense; Uncertainty.
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
vagueness (encz) | vagueness,nejasnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Vagueness (gcide) | Vagueness \Vague"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being vague.
[1913 Webster] |
vagueness (wn) | vagueness
n 1: unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not
coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model
of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that
suggested little or no thought about what each might
convey"
2: indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the
swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner" |
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