Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Exactness; punctuality; promptness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Punctuality; exactness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun punctuality; exactness

Etymologies

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punctual +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • What to my backward glance seems startling and a little awful is their punctualness and inevitability.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • What to my backward glance seems startling and a little awful is their punctualness and inevitability.

    The Arrow of Gold 1919

  • What to my backward glance seems startling and a little awful is their punctualness and inevitability.

    The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

  • What to my backward glance seems startling and a little awful is their punctualness and inevitability.

    The Arrow of Gold Joseph Conrad 1890

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