Both Uses of
punctilious
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Rosier, coming in unannounced, failed to attract his attention; but the young man, who was very punctilious, though he was even exceptionally conscious that it was the wife, not the husband, he had come to see, went up to shake hands with him.†
Chpt 37
- It was punctilious, it was explicit, it was everything but natural—a deficiency which Lord Warburton, who, himself, had on the whole a good deal of nature, may be supposed to have perceived.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
paying careful attention to details -- especially social conventions