SCRUPULOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrupulously mean? 

• SCRUPULOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb SCRUPULOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with extreme conscientiousness

  Familiarity information: SCRUPULOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRUPULOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With extreme conscientiousness

Synonyms:

conscientiously; religiously; scrupulously

Context example:

he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock

Pertainym:

scrupulous (characterized by extreme care and great effort)

 Context examples 

Meanwhile, he saw enough of Fanny's embarrassment to make him scrupulously guard against exciting it a second time, by any word, or look, or movement.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

M. Moser knew nothing of any valuable jewellery, but it had been remarked by the servants that the heavy trunk in the lady’s bedroom was always scrupulously locked.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Can I receive from him the bridal ring, endure all the forms of love (which I doubt not he would scrupulously observe) and know that the spirit was quite absent?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a tall and stately person, scrupulously dressed, with a drawn, thin face, and a nose which was grotesquely curved and long.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not at all; he had, on the contrary, remarked that I had scrupulously respected every association: he feared, indeed, I must have bestowed more thought on the matter than it was worth.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The candle, whose ray had been my beacon, burnt on the table; and by its light an elderly woman, somewhat rough-looking, but scrupulously clean, like all about her, was knitting a stocking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He addressed me precisely in his ordinary manner, or what had, of late, been his ordinary manner—one scrupulously polite.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)