punctilio
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They combined, then as now, a wild bureaucratic adherence to punctilio and procedure with entanglements of cohort and clan that could shortcut the procedure in a moment.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
There lingers, even in our mercantile age, an admiration for the aristocratic ethos, the punctilio, of the duel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2015
Protocol, punctilio, politesse suddenly drop, leaving Tennyson’s “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 29, 2011
With im peccable punctilio, he asked permission to show his orders from the British Ad miralty "to escort the ship of the Argentine minister while it is navigating in the waters of Her Majesty."
From Time Magazine Archive
And he waited on the diner with as much care for punctilio as though a formal banquet were in progress.
From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum
Communist party congresses are usu ally thoroughly predictable, ritualistic affairs, and for a time last week the Twelfth Congress of the Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a delightful exchange from the endless ceremonies and punctilios of the region over which Louis XIV. presided.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton
Now, grave colleagues, What comfort might this injur'd lady drain, In these punctilios which import her state, From this insensate sot?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Suppose a woman had been nominated at the right time, and in the right way, according to your understanding of punctilios, wouldn't the same resistance have been made and the same row got up?
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From Ratisbon.—Ridiculous disputes concerning punctilios among the envoys at the Diet—the churches and relics—silver image of the Trinity.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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