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
Thrice every year are held scrutinies into life and conduct, at which the hateful practice of secret denunciation is admitted, and the accused is forbidden to call for the name of his accuser.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Goldwin Smith
It was, in fact, one of those momentary scrutinies which are at once complete and definite.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
Nevertheless, it was not without much difficulty, and after many supplemental scrutinies and inquisitions from a board of officers before whom he was subsequently brought, that our wanderer was finally permitted to quit the cliff.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
