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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inconclusiveness.

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Examples

  • The two partsprecedingare nowentwinedand come together inconclusion.

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  • For all its modern inconclusion, it is to nineteenth-century European literature that one feels the affinity of this work.

    Beyond the Evidence Johnson, Diane 1979

  • By the time I reached this conclusion, or inconclusion, it was time to grill forth to our boat, and we escaped from shade to shade, as before, until we reached the first-class shelter of the awning at her stern.

    London Films William Dean Howells 1878

  • She was in the joke of this; but it was a real trouble to her for a time that Dr. Morrell, after admitting the force of her reasons, should be content to rest in a comfortable inconclusion as to his conduct, till one day she reflected that this was what she was herself doing, and that she differed from him only in the openness with which she proclaimed her opinions.

    Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878

  • Actually inconclusion may be a more appropriate term to describe the outcome.

    IBTimes.com RSS Feed 2010

  • Actually inconclusion may be a more appropriate term to describe the outcome.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • But our inconclusion here stems around problem that we can't tell how many positions were ever out there nor do we know how many positions are left.

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  • In particular, it seems to me quite an inconclusion to give to the spirits of the dead, or to any other existences, good or evil (unless, indeed, by possibility to ourselves as magnetically and sympathetically influenced by some metaphysical potencies whereof we know next to nothing), the seemingly miraculous powers exhibited, however weakly and childishly, in numberless seances, privileged to possess among the company an ecstatic medium between (as is assumed) themselves and beings immaterial.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

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