scrupulosity

noun

Etymology: From scrupulo(u)s + -ity, from Latin scrupulositas.

1. The property of being scrupulous; excessive attention to scruples.

   “So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not: And it is of us to be taken without curious scrupulosity, as sacred and undoubted scripture, seeing it was written by the holy apostle, into whom the holy Ghost was inspired, as is witnessed.”

   “Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.”