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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. in a punctilious manner;
- Example: "he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\ (-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp. puntilloso.] Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. "A punctilious observance of divine laws." --Rogers. "Very punctilious copies of any letters." --The Nation. [1913 Webster] Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of common life. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] -- Punc*til"ious*ly, adv. -- Punc*til"ious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

punctiliously adv 1: in a punctilious manner; "he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels"