punctilios
- plural of punctilio.
Example Sentences
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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
Under the circumstances, and between such adversaries, the punctilios of ceremony are slight.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
Margaret on her part did what she could to secure to her King some of the punctilios of reverential respect due in her knowledge to a monarch.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
Louis XIV. by nature and by education was excessively fond of the pomp and the punctilios of court etiquette.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
