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vaguery | https |

As a noun vaguery

is (uncountable) vagueness, the condition of being vague.

As an initialism https is

(internet) hypertext transfer protocol secure (http secure), an encrypted form of information transfer on the internet.

vaguery

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Vagueness, the condition of being vague.
  • * 1859 , New Exegesis of Shakespeare , page 245-6:
  • this badge of rivalry and intrusion, and of the vaguery and vacillation which restrain them through dread of danger.
  • * 1977' (first publication; republication in '''2003 ), Tom Nairn, ''The Break-Up of Britain: crisis and neo-nationalism - Page 68:
  • As a matter of fact, the particular breadth and vaguery of residual all-British consciousness decays more readily into racialism than into a defined, territorially restricted nationalism.
  • * 1985 , Stephen Chan, The Commonwealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe: a personal memoir , page 11:
  • The wording of diplomatic agreements and protocols is often deliberately designed either to soothe ruffled feathers — while pursuing an otherwise ruthless course — or to give assurance in sufficiently vague form that the vaguery might afterwards be exploited to diminish the effect of the assurances.
  • * 1988 , Kenneth Pickering, How to Study Modern Drama :
  • There is a sharp and effective contrast between the incisiveness and energy of his speech and the vaguery and haziness he is attacking.
  • * 2003 , Annette Fierro, The Glass State: the technology of the spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998 , page 103:
  • Incumbent on the quest for vaguery are frustration and unrequited desire; complete accessibility is inherently denied as part of its most basic definition.
  • (countable) A vagueness, a thing which is vague, an example of vagueness.
  • * 1980 , Nicholas P. Cushner, Lords of the Land: sugar, wine, and Jesuit estates of coastal Peru, 1600-1767 , page 14:
  • Some were indeed powerful men belonging to powerful families, exercising authority and influence, but the vagueries of colonial economic conditions made their holdings precarious.
  • * 1983 , Marvin Davis, Rank and Rivalry: the politics of inequality in rural West Bengal , page 191:
  • Yet whatever their faith in the importance of a politicized citizenry, the framers of the Indian Constitution left little to the vagueries of mass political participation.

    See also

    * vagary

    https

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (internet) Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP Secure), an encrypted form of information transfer on the Internet.