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scrupulosity |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scrupulosity \Scru`pu*los"i*ty\, n. [L. scrupulositas.] The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. --Dr. H. More Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. --South.
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