Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scrupulosity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scrupulosity \Scru`pu*los"i*ty\, n. [L. scrupulositas.]
The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt;
doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or
tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice
regard to exactness and propierty; precision.
The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when
they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon
retires. --Dr. H. More.
Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their
Sabbath. --South.
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