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
Being ready on time so others aren’t kept waiting
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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