Adjective : a scrupulous performance. From Dictionary.com.
The whole idea of scrupulosity is very foreign to me. From Wordnik.com. [Women of God] Reference
He had nothing in him of the morbid scrupulosity which is such an inhuman feature in French Jansenism and some of the English sects. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
M'Iver, it seemed to me with ridiculous scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Q: Father John, I seem to be struggling with scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Q & A on Scrupulosity] Reference
Critics of all liturgies should not fall into the error of scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Tridentine Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday] Reference
Levitical scrupulosity of the native-born, who in his heart considers the. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
The LA Times discusses a form of religious obsessiveness called scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: 2005-10-14 Spike activity] Reference
To this day I have not lost that worldview it also helped me with my scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
But this confessor's scrupulosity exceeded everything I had, hitherto, encountered. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
I have struggled with scrupulosity a lot, and trying to wean myself off of that is difficult. From Wordnik.com. [But God loves me anyway, right? (Now with footnotes!)] Reference
We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Stations of the Cross] Reference
Such is certainly one way, indeed a centuries-old way, to avoid scrupulosity and Catholic guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The attitude of beatitude] Reference
I am looking for a good, regular confessor, preferably someone with experience with scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Patience] Reference
We must also admire the religious scrupulosity of the man, seeing he does not rashly take an oath. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity of conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
Besides he is not noted, anyway, for his excessive concern for scrupulosity in his business dealings. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon Roll] Reference
Because the murderer's scrupulosity suggested a cruel parody of solicitude, local media baptized him 'The Babysitter.'. From Wordnik.com. ['I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness'] Reference
He saw the humor of these researches, but that did not prevent him from carrying them out with the utmost scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
While I respect the scrupulosity that prompts Peacocke's highly reserved approach, I believe his stance to be mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Science & Religion: No Ends in Sight] Reference
At her new blog Charlotte Was Both, Amy Welborn names the the polarities-in-tension as "complacency" and "scrupulosity.". From Wordnik.com. [Pillars and posts] Reference
Unfortunately, this approach is doomed because there are real distinctions between Manichaeism, Jansenism and scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Loss of Shame] Reference
Italian, betokening a lady -- there was no delicate scrupulosity about the domestic, and the good Mungo unhesitatingly indulged himself. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
As historian John Wilson Croker expressed it:We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Marie-Antoinette's Journey of Faith] Reference
It was the same old problem which had presented itself to her mind twice already, and the same possible over-scrupulosity was perplexing her now. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The whole system is here displayed with a modesty of pretension, and a scrupulosity in statement, well calculated to bespeak candid investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
How came it that no aurora of early light, no prelusive murmurs of scrupulosity even from themselves, had run before this wild levanter of change?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Thus the great Bhavabhuti spent his life in constructing three dramas; mighty spirit though he was, he yet suffers from the very scrupulosity of his labour. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
"I know that I made some mistakes in the 1970s of hiring my brother and not overseeing him and not investigating with scrupulosity what was going on," Bennison said. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Bennison, Embattled Episcopal Bishop, Vows To Stay In Office] Reference
I believe he was perfectly honest in intention, but he did not understand the scrupulosity in book-keeping which his partner thought essential to any business concern. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
The advice is excellent: but morbid scrupulosity is not a common fault of English laymen. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Reality] Reference
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. From Wordnik.com. [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference
He had a kind of muddy complexion, which, though he washed himself with Oriental scrupulosity, did not look clear. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
I cannot think that in a matter worked out with such extraordinary scrupulosity such a thing should be overlooked. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
The burdensomeness of Moses 'law, ere it was overlaid, in later days, by Rabbinical scrupulosity, has been much exaggerated. From Wordnik.com. [Discipline and Other Sermons] Reference
On re-entering the stables, the traveller found the Corporal examining his horse from head to foot with great care and scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
But, in truth, the scrupulosity of the Puritan was not that sort of scrupulosity which the Apostle had commanded believers to respect. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
Every critical reader must remark that Addison has, with a scrupulosity almost unexampled on the English stage, confined himself in time to. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
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