• accomplishment, close, completion, conclusion, end, ending, finale, finish, finishing, perfection, settling, termination, windup
• expression, idiom, term
• complete, consummative, finished, finite
• imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, unfinished
• decidedly, deliberately, expressly, in set terms, positively, specifically
• to strike off sy's head
• technical term, technicality, term
• imperfection, incompleteness, incompletion
• style marked by felicities, telling style
• inexpressible, unutterable