fastidiousness

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Then I found you, Elfride, and I felt for the first time that my fastidiousness was a blessing.

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  1. The character or quality of being fastidious; over-niceness of judgment, taste, or appetite; great or undue niceness or exactness in selection. That generous and liberal fastidiousness which is not inconsistent with the strongest sensibility to merit. Macaulay, History. Increased cultivation almost always produces a fastidiousness which necessitates the increased elaboration of our pleasures. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 88. Fastidiousness is only another form of egotism. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 350.

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  • Their soft and girlish affectations and fastidiousness, their sickly sweet manner of speech, and their altogether too affectionate deportment toward their fellows distinguished them from those who had put their vice behind them and wished to be free of it, and whose steps on the road to recovery were visible to any acute observer. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
  • As superstitions give way to fashion fastidiousness, the colour black finds itself cordially invited even to Indian weddings, from which it was banned earlier.
  • If anybody felt in him a lack of fastidiousness, the point was not pressed. —  On the Stairs
  • Perhaps what I have called fastidiousness is a divine fear. —  George Bernard Shaw
  • She laughed at his fastidiousness, and bade him describe what he would admit to be an irresistible charmer; he drew her own portrait, but she so rarely consulted her glass, that she knew not the likeness. —  The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
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