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punctilio

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9 lettersPronunciation /pʌŋkˈtɪliˌoʊ/Part of speech nounSorted ciilnoptuStarts with PEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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