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scrupulous
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A Sketch of the Past
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He was scrupulously clean; he washed all over ever so many times a day, and was scrupulously well dressed, as a Victorian city solicitor; also as a countryman.†

scrupulously = ethically; or carefully diligent
He was scrupulously clean; he washed all over ever so many times a day, and was scrupulously well dressed, as a Victorian city solicitor; also as a countryman.†
The word 'scrupulous' suggests itself when I think of Jack Hills.†

scrupulous = careful to behave ethically and/or diligently
He was scrupulously honest, honourable, in the Eton and Balliol sense, but there was more to his scrupulosity than that.†

scrupulously = ethically; or carefully diligent
He was scrupulously honest, honourable, in the Eton and Balliol sense, but there was more to his scrupulosity than that.†
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scrupulosity = the state of behaving ethically and/or diligently

Definitions:

(1) (scrupulous)
careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)