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单词 scrupulosity
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scrupulosityn.

/skruːpjuːˈlɒsɪti/
Etymology: < French scrupulosité (14th cent. in Littré) or < Latin scrūpulōsitāt-em , < scrūpulōsus scrupulous adj.: see -ity suffix.
1.
a. The state or quality of being scrupulous (see the adjective).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [noun] > conscientiousness > meticulous
conscience1483
scrupleness1489
scruple1526
scrupulosity1526
queasiness1576
punctualness1620
punctuality1622
scrupulousness1689
overscrupulousness1740
superstition1755
overscrupulosity1829
over-scruple1894
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail
chariness1571
minuteness1640
exactness1645
particularity1669
nicety1711
exactitude1735
narrowness1817
particularness1859
scrupulousness1863
detail1868
scrupulosity1879
meticulosity1887
meticulousness1909
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Sii Our lorde for his tender mercy preserue all those that entendeth this holy iourney of perfection, fro..scrupulosite and pusillanimite of spirit.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 108 Thence we went to New-Coll: where the Chapell was in its antient garb, not withstanding the Scrupulositie of the Times.
1690 E. Stillingfleet Serm. xxxv, in Wks. I. 558 Avoid a needless Scrupulosity of Conscience, as a thing which keeps our Minds always uneasie.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxvi. 4 Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 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.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such i. 5 When I was a lad I danced a hornpipe with arduous scrupulosity.
b. An instance of this; †a scruple.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > a doubt, scruple
were1338
doubtc1374
incertainty1483
scruple1534
dubitation1545
scrupulosity?a1562
irresolution1592
suspense1594
non liquet1656
nicety1694
reservation1719
hows and whys1726
dubiety1807
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > scruple of conscience
scriplea1382
grutchingc1450
grudge1483
scruple1526
scrupulosity?a1562
qualm1617
mote1619
alarm bella1629
squeam1798
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail > instance of
scrupulosity1831
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 83 Yt was a certyn Scripulositie that prykked my concyence.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 36 Or else..we fall into timorous scrupulosities.
1831 C. Lamb Recoll. Royal Acad. in Mrs. Leicester's School (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.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iv. xv. 264 It shows..that Peter had already abandoned Rabbinic scrupulosities.
2. Astronomy. [After scruple n.1 3] Minute determination (of time). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > minute determination of time
scrupulosity1633
1633 H. Gellibrand App. Longitude in T. James Voy. R 3 The scrupulosity of time is vnknowne, and therefore we cannot argue the ☽ true place from thence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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