Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun strict attention to minute details; the quality of being meticulous.
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- noun strict attention to minute details
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Examples
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He regarded the time-reckoning scheme of the postmillenarians as arbitrary, and his placement of the reign of the saints in the future reflected this overall meticulosity.
Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation Benjamin A. Ehlers 1992
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