Noun:

ஆச்சார நுட்பம், நன்னடத்தைக் குறிப்பு,

punctilio's Usage Examples:

During the Indian Mutiny Dost Mahommed punctiliously refrained from assisting the insurgents.

The Ramanuja Brahmans are most punctilious in the preparation of their food and in regard to the privacy of their meals, before taking which they have to bathe and put on woollen or silk garments.

"The law of course was clear that the "punctilio which swordsmen falsely do call honour" was no excuse for wilful murder.

Carlyle did his duties as a schoolmaster punctiliously, but found the life thoroughly uncongenial.

Once he took in the letters from the evening postman, and brought them to the top of the stairs with punctilious politeness.

He is an honest and very punctilious German.

The kingdom of Jerusalem consisted of a society of peers, in which the king might be Primus, but in which he was none the less subject to a punctilious law, regulating his position equally with that of every member of the society.

Such wholesale criticism was bitterly resented, but indeed throughout his career Wellington, cold and punctilious, never secured to himself the affections of officers and men as Marlborough or Napoleon did.

The nation threw itself on the side of the Pharisees; not in the spirit, of punctilious legalism, but with the ardour of a national enthusiasm deceived in its dearest hopes, and turning for help from the delusive kingship of the Hasmonaeans to the true kingship of Yahweh, and to His vicegerent the king of David's house.

"One more question, Count," he said, "which I beg you to answer in all sincerity--not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you renounced your former convictions--do you believe in God?"He is an honest and very punctilious German.

The law of course was clear that the "punctilio which swordsmen falsely do call honour" was no excuse for wilful murder.

There is a marked growth of refinement and of ideas of morality, and a condemnation of the shameless vice and oppression which went on amid a punctilious and splendid worship.

Synonyms:

observance, honoring,

Antonyms:

nonobservance, noncompliance, nonconformity,