scrutiny
noun
a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
scrutinies
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pluralof scrutiny.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s and '50s.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were to watch over each other's lives, and hold annual scrutinies into conduct.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Goldwin Smith
Had the scales not been abundantly thick and callous above my eyes, how easily might these clandestine scrutinies have brought me back equally to happiness and my senses!
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms
The Pope, who was appealed to, expressed his regret, but declined to put any pressure on the reluctant abbot: two more scrutinies followed, and finally Abbot von Stotzingen, of Maria-laach, was elected by seventy-five votes.
From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair
