Punctuality
Key Bible Verse
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."
Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Definitions
Practical
strict observance in keeping engagements
Biblical
respecting other people by keeping all of my appointments and by meeting my responsibilities on time
Webster's Original (1828)
linkPUNC'TUAL, adjective [Latin punctum, a point.]
1. Consisting in a point; as this punctual spot. [Little Used.]
2. Exact; observant of nice points; punctilious, particularly in observing time, appointments or promises. It is honorable in a man to be punctual to appointments, or to appointed hours; it is just to be punctual in paying debts.
3. Exact; as a punctual correspondence between a prediction and an event.
4. Done at the exact time; as punctual payment.
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