Word Meanings - FALLAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
Related words: (words related to FALLAX)
- CAVIL; CAVILER; CAVILLER
One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle. - CAVILOUS; CAVILLOUS
Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. -- Cav"il*ous*ly, adv. -- Cav"il*ous*ness, n. - CAVILLATION
Frivolous or sophistical objection. Hooker. - CAVILING
Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis. - CAVIL
To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak. - CAVILINGLY
In a caviling manner.