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What is the noun for exacting?

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exaction
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force
  2. extortion.
  3. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Government and state in the first half of the nineteenth century were dimly seen as agencies for the exaction of taxes.”
      “In economic terms, the exaction which was being delivered could be thought of as a tax on land value or recoupment of community benefit.”
      “Indeed, in a bull of 1212, Pope Innocent III relaxed the obligations of prior oaths and forbade the exaction of similar oaths in the future.”
exactor
  1. A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner.
  2. A person who collects taxes.
exactitude
  1. Exactness, accuracy; attention to small details.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's a work of exactitude in literature not rivalled outside Tristram Shandy.”
      “We may perhaps question the exactitude of this statement.”
      “I enjoy the excess of precision, a kind of maniacal exactitude of language, a descriptive madness.”
exactment
  1. The process of exacting something; exaction.
exactification
  1. The process of making something exact.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Legal thinking, like mathematical thinking, involves an exactification of concepts.”
exacter
  1. Alternative spelling of exactor
  2. Examples:
    1. “The calibration will be exacter if the pH value of the buffer solution is closer to that of the test sample.”
      “These three considerations all militate in favor of the state being the exclusive exacter of retributive justice.”
      “When the exacter model will be built, it will be possible to start creation of 3D-model of the whole servo-system.”
exactingness
  1. The state of being exacting.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the course of control the controlling officers should demonstrate exactingness, objectivity and adherence to principles.”
      “In parallel to his career as a musician, he then embarked on his spiritual practice with all the passion and exactingness of a great artist.”
      “Thus CTMI equips the A-380 or the APM 30 with the same exactingness, in a continual spirit of partnership and service.”
exactness
  1. The state of being exact.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I have never been able to understand how every bit has dovetailed with such exactness.”
      “We may perhaps question the exactness of this statement.”
      “Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.”
exactress
  1. A female exactor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Wirral-born exactress is being kept in hospital after the accident in Camberwell.”
      “Subsequently, the lensman's exactress daughter Antara Mali issued a statement saying her father didn't need help and termed the reports as publicity stunts.”
exactifications
  1. plural of exactification
exactitudes
exactments
  1. plural of exactment
exactresses
  1. plural of exactress
exactnesses
exactions
  1. plural of exaction
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes.”
      “Apart from demanding an increase in wages, they demanded that the military stop collecting illegal exactions from the truck drivers at the gates.”
      “He was a man of violent temper and sarcastic tongue, a strict disciplinarian, and ruthless in his exactions.”
exacters
  1. plural of exacter
exactors
  1. plural of exactor
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