punctuality (pungktualiti)

[= F. ponc tualité; as punctual + -ity.] The state or character of being punctual. (a) Scrupulous exactne with regard to matters of fact or detail; exactne ; nicety. IMG:content-1307.png:[blocks in formation] (b) Adherence to the exact time of meeting one's obligations or performing one's duties; especially, the fact or habit of promptne in attendance or in fulfilling appoint ments. We were not a little displeased to find that, in the first promise of punctuality our Rais had made, he had disappointed us by absenting himself from the boat. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 47. (c) The character of being, or existence in, a point. A state of rest in our own body or in external things, the perception of any defined and static form whatever, and most of all the very po ibility of unspaciality or punctuality, must be subsequently inferred as negative instances from indeterminate extension and movement. G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 230. punctually (pungk'tū-al-i), adv . [ punctual -ly 2.] In a punctual manner. (a) With atten- tion or reference to minute points or particulars; nicely; exactly; precisely. In imitation of what I have seene my Father do, I began to observe matters more punctualy , which I did use to set down in a blanke almanac. Evelyn , Diary (1631), p. 9. What did you with it? - tell me punctually ; I look for a strict accompt. Mas singer , Emperor of the East, iv. 5. It [the gift of reading] consists, first of all, in a vast intellectual endowment,. by which man rises to der stand that he is not punctually right, nor those from whom he differs absolutely wrong. R. L. Stevens on , Books which have Influenced me, p. 14. (6) With scrupulous exactne or promptne in regard to the fulfilling of obligations, duties, appointments, etc.: as, to pay debts or rent punctually .