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Scrupulosity

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scru·pu·lous  (skrpy-ls)
adj.
1. Conscientious and exact; painstaking. See Synonyms at meticulous.
2. Having scruples; principled.
[Middle English, from Old French scrupuleux, from Latin scrpulsus, from scrpulus, scruple; see scruple.]
scrupu·losi·ty (-ls-t), scrupu·lous·ness (-ls-ns) n.
scrupu·lous·ly adv.
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His experience was of that pitiable kind which shrinks from pity, and fears most of all that it should be known: it was that proud narrow sensitiveness which has not mass enough to spare for transformation into sympathy, and quivers thread-like in small currents of self-preoccupation or at best of an egoistic scrupulosity.
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