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Punctiliousness

noun
1.
Strict attention to minute details.  Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, scrupulousness.






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"Punctiliousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... insubstantial pageant. dress; court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress; tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage. ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto [Lat.], punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness. mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor. attitudinarian^; fop &c 854. V. be ostentatious &c adj.; come forward, put oneself forward; attract attention, star it. cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... manner of my acquaintances and even something different in the nods of the other captains, when meeting them at the landing-steps or in the offices where business called me. The old-maidish head clerk treated me with distant punctiliousness and, as it were, gathered his skirts round him for fear of contamination. It seemed to me that the very niggers on the quays turned to look after me as I passed; and as to Jacobus's boatman his "Good-night, sah!" when ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Punctiliousness" :   painstakingness, punctilious, conscientiousness



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