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Definition of Punctiliously
1. Adverb. In a punctilious manner. "He launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels"
Definition of Punctiliously
1. Adverb. In a punctilious manner. ¹
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Definition of Punctiliously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctiliously
Literary usage of Punctiliously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Letters of Cicero: Literally Translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1891)
"... you have often shown me that you would undertake punctiliously the record of
my times and the results of my fortunes, I seck you uow so earnestly and at ..."
2. Dictionary of Scientific Illustrations and Symbols: Moral Truths Mirrored in (1894)
"It is a good representative of the finical character among men—of that individual
who is punctiliously careful not to ..."
3. My Thought Book by J. P. Thomas (1825)
"... who are always punctiliously cautious in departing from any old enactment,
even though necessity should require it, cannot object to a declaratory ..."
4. The Works of Lord Macaulay by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1898)
"It is of as much importance that you should punctiliously preserve your dignity
as that the Master of the Rolls should punctiliously preserve his dignity. ..."
5. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1873)
"Amidst some excellent advice of a parent to his son, on his general deportment,
we find the latter punctiliously enjoined not to take his seat at the board ..."
6. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1856)
"... was punctiliously observed by the Aztecs.41 Tobacco was then offered to the
company, in pipes, mixed up with aromatic substances, or in the form of ..."
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