punctilio

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

Like all his aristocratic breed, he had a certain punctilio to observe in such affairs.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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

And it was all so easy; no formality, few punctilios to observe––just free-and-easy good-fellowship.

From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston

This was one of his delicate punctilios; for he did not expect that, from what Lord Howe had written him on the occasion, the ship would have been actually commissioned till about a fortnight longer.

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James

"He's right, you know; those things do tell," Crosstrees had said to me when I had attempted to be jocose about these punctilios.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony

Such was the ludicrous gravity of those court etiquettes, or punctilios, combined with political consequences, of which I am now to exhibit a picture.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac