minuteness

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In "Diddling: Considered as One of the Exact Sciences," he offers the ingredients of a good con: "Minuteness, interest, perseverance, ingenuity, audacity, nonchalance, originality, impertinence, and grin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Minuteness of finish and perfection of detail were lavished with Oriental profuseness.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Minuteness of detail in relating this case must be excused on account of the extreme interest and importance attached to it.

From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by Mueller, A.

Minuteness is in itself the voucher for authenticity.

From The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815 by Dickson, William Kirk