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Word Meanings - FALLAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.

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  • 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.

 

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