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scrupulosity|skruːpjuːˈlɒsɪtɪ|
[a. F. scrupulosité (14th c. in Littré) or ad. L. scrūpulōsitāt-em, f. scrūpulōs-us scrupulous: see -ity.]
1. The state or quality of being scrupulous (see the adj.).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 66 Our lorde for his tender mercy preserue all those that entendeth this holy iourney of perfeccyon from..scrupulosite and pusillanimite of spiryte. 1654Evelyn Diary 12 July, Thence we went to New College, where the Chapel was in its ancient garb, notwithstanding the scrupulositie of the times. 1690Stillingfl. Serm. xxxv. Wks. I. 558 Avoid a needless Scrupulosity of Conscience, as a thing which keeps our Minds always uneasie. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxvi, Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 273 It would have been thought strange scrupulosity in him to quit his post, because his advice as to matters not strictly within his own department was not taken by his master. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such 5 When I was a lad I danced a hornpipe with arduous scrupulosity.
b. An instance of this; † a scruple.
a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 123 It was a certeyn scrupulositie that prykked my concyence. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. iv. §7 Or else..we fall into timorous scrupulosities. 1831Lamb Recoll. Royal Academ. in Mrs. Leicester's School, etc. (1886) 309 For the thousand tints—the grains—which in life diversify the nose, the chin, the cheek..he cared nothing at all about them. He left such scrupulosities to opticians and anatomists. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 264 It shows that Peter had already abandoned Rabbinic scrupulosities.
†2. Astr. [After scruple n.1 3.] Minute determination (of time). Obs.
1633H. Gellibrand App. Longitude in T. James Voy. R 3, The scrupulosity of time is vnknowne, and therefore we cannot argue the {moonfq} true place from thence. |