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P________
Definitions
strict observance of formalities
Word origin
From Italian puntiglio, or Spanish puntillo, diminutive from Latin pūnctum (“point”).
Used in a sentence
“[…]–but, a-propos, ſaid he—Shakeſpear is full of great things—He forgot a ſmall punctillio of announcing your name—it puts you under a neceſſity of doing it yourſelf.”
“The country was rigorous in exacting my compliance to my engagements to a punctilio, but equally careless in performing her contracts with me; and why so?”
“It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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