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Scrupulosity   Listen
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Scrupulosity  n.  The quality or state of being scrupulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the fear of doing wrong or offending; nice regard to exactness and propriety; precision. "The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires." "Careful, even to scrupulosity,... to keep their Sabbath."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scrupulosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... regeneration which we are about to study, it is important to recognize that they are only one species of a genus that contains other types as well. For example, the new birth may be away from religion into incredulity; or it may be from moral scrupulosity into freedom and license; or it may be produced by the irruption into the individual's life of some new stimulus or passion, such as love, ambition, cupidity, revenge, or patriotic devotion. In all these instances we have precisely the same psychological ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... marching down Fleet Street arm-in-arm with Percy to take supper with Dr. Goldsmith. The lexicographer has on a new suit of clothes and a wig finely powdered, and looks uncommon through this unexpected scrupulosity of costume. Percy is impertinent enough to inquire the ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • E. S. Lang Buckland



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