methodicalness

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With the proceeds of his 400-odd Metropolitan performances he has bought himself a home in Monroe, N.Y., where, with German methodicalness, he raises potatoes and experimental cherry bushes.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not mean methodicalness, but that he took delight in knowing how to do all manner of things in the very best way. 

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir

In many parts the Germans are taking a census, all their methodicalness contributing vastly to the troops' comfort and happiness.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

They may or may not contribute to the comfort of the patient, but they betoken the captaincy of one whose methodicalness will in other and less visible respects most emphatically benefit him.

From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Muir, Ward

Van Helsing, with his usual methodicalness, began taking the various contents from his bag and placing them ready for use.

From Dracula by Stoker, Bram