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Meaning of SCRUPULOSITY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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