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punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquettepunctilious = paying careful attention to details
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In official matters, despite his youth and taste for frivolous gaiety, he was exceedingly reserved, punctilious, and even severe; but in society he was often amusing and witty, and... (source)
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Cued to the Germanic punctiliousness of the manse, he had arrived exactly on schedule.† (source)
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"Thus flies foul our fearless night owl," she might say, the words forming so punctiliously on her lips, her head raised and neck straight and her eyes fixed on our teacher.† (source)
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He had not drifted apart he thought, laying down his spoon and wiping his clean-shaven lips punctiliously.† (source)
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He cooked his own food in the kitchen, to the negress' outraged indignation, and put it on the table himself and ate it face to face with his father, who saluted him punctiliously and unfailingly with a glass of Bourbon whiskey: this too the son did not touch and had never tasted.† (source)
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Captain Eaton treated her with punctilious caution.† (source)
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Then, letting one hand drop to the bed for support, she leaned a little sideways, lifted her feet from the floor, still together, and with a gentle, curling motion, lay back on the white counterpane, then punctiliously straightened out and again folded her hands across her bosom, and closed her eyes.† (source)
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But now such a punctiliousness in duty was shown that his topmates would sometimes good-naturedly laugh at him for it.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He was startled to see how much he had aged, how his hands shook, and the rather punctilious conformity with which he awaited death, and then he felt a great disgust with himself, which he mingled with the beginnings of pity.† (source)
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When his hour had struck he stood up and took leave of his desk and of his fellow-clerks punctiliously.† (source)
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and just on those very evenings when I must needs take most pains to receive it with due formality, I had to snatch it, to seize it instantly and in public, without even having the time or being properly free to apply to what I was doing the punctiliousness which madmen use who compel themselves to exclude all other thoughts from their minds while they are shutting a door, so that when the sickness of uncertainty sweeps over them again they can triumphantly face and overcome it with the recollection of the precise moment in which the door was shut.† (source)
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At the reception desk, a middle-aged woman with the punctilious look of a librarian looked up at her.† (source)
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He knew the law even better than did the dogs that had known no other life, and he observed the law more punctiliously; but still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.† (source)
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Pyotr Petrovitch belonged to that class of persons, on the surface very polite in society, who make a great point of punctiliousness, but who, directly they are crossed in anything, are completely disconcerted, and become more like sacks of flour than elegant and lively men of society.† (source)
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He was punctilious in his politeness to the captured queen, and she thought perhaps the politeness was more hateful to her than scorn would have been.† (source)
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