All 5 Uses
meticulous
in
The Giver
(Edited)
- The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.
p. 48.6meticulously = in a manner that treated details with great care
- Finally the Chief Elder paid tribute to the hard work of her committee, which had performed the observations so meticulously all year.
p. 52.6meticulously = carefully with great attention to detail
- Jonas was identified as a possible Receiver many years ago. We have observed him meticulously.
p. 62.3meticulously = in detail with great care
- With all of his being he tried to give each of them a piece of the memory: not of the tortured cry of the elephant, but of the being of the elephant, of the towering, immense creature and the meticulous touch with which it had tended its friend at the end.
p. 101.5meticulous = careful
- All of it — all the things they had thought through so meticulously — fell apart. That night, Jonas was forced to flee.
p. 163.2 *meticulously = carefully with great attention to detail
Definitions:
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(1)
(meticulous) treating details with great care
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)