单词 | punctiliosity |
释义 | punctiliosityn. rare. = punctiliousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > strict decorum formc1405 galancie1581 ceremoniousness1583 punctilio1596 formality1599 ceremony1603 punctuality1618 punctillea1648 complementalness1657 formalness1684 punctiliousness1685 nicety1693 ceremonial1749 square-toedness1846 punctiliosity1859 uptightness1969 1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 454 A kind of sweet, modest punctiliosity is the virtue he strives to paint. 1919 Proc. High School Conf. 1918 (Univ. Illinois) 175 Just when to stick Bourbonism between somebody's ribs for a slip in oral righteousness, or when to graft bourgeois prose on the lips of verbal punctiliosity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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