punctiliousness
101formality — [n1] convention, custom academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form*, officialism, procedure, red tape*, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition;… …
102rigor — [n] strictness, exactness accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, conventionalism, difficulty, exactitude, firmness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, intolerance, meticulousness, obduracy, ordeal,… …
103punctilious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ showing great attention to detail or correct behaviour. DERIVATIVES punctiliously adverb punctiliousness noun …
104punctiliously — punctilious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ showing great attention to detail or correct behaviour. DERIVATIVES punctiliously adverb punctiliousness noun …
105punctilious — [puŋk til′ē əs] adj. [Fr pointilleux < pointille < It puntiglio: see PUNCTILIO] 1. very careful about every detail of behavior, ceremony, etc. [a punctilious host] 2. very exact; scrupulous punctiliously adv. punctiliousness n …
106scrupulous — [skro͞op′yə ləs] adj. [< MFr or L: MFr scrupuleux < L scrupulosus] 1. a) extremely careful to do the precisely right, proper, or correct thing in every last detail; most punctilious b) showing extreme care, precision, and punctiliousness 2 …
107conscientiousness — noun 1. the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience • Ant: ↑unconscientiousness • Derivationally related forms: ↑conscientious • Hypernyms: ↑conscience • Hyponyms: ↑ …
108painstakingness — noun the trait of being painstaking and careful • Syn: ↑conscientiousness • Ant: ↑unconscientiousness (for: ↑conscientiousness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑painstaking, ↑ …
109punctilious — adj. 1 attentive to formality or etiquette. 2 precise in behaviour. Derivatives: punctiliously adv. punctiliousness n. Etymology: F pointilleux f. pointille f. It. (as PUNCTILIO) …
110ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON ZALMAN — (the Vilna Gaon or Elijah Gaon ; acronym Ha GRA = Ha Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu; 1720–1797), one of the greatest spiritual and intellectual leaders of Jewry in modern times. A man of iron will, Elijah combined the personal life of an intellectual hermit… …
