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Definition of Painstakingness

1. Noun. The trait of being painstaking and careful.

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Literary usage of Painstakingness

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1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1908)
"... and historical writer.2 Then, with extension of knowledge, has come a sharpening of intelligence and increased stringency of method—a painstakingness in ..."

2. Prince Bismarck: An Historical Biography by Charles Lowe (1885)
"But whereas the latter, with that hair-splitting painstakingness so dear to the professorial mind, had dawdled over its work more than a year, ..."

3. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1906)
"... springing from his very painstakingness and constant sense of the intricacy and manifoldness of the factors involved in the phenomena under review, ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1873)
"You can work your way upwards into the aristocracy of genius by painstakingness: do not fear competition with one who claims the patent of intellectual ..."

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