Cavillation

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

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  • n. The act of cavilling
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Frivolous or sophistical objection.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or practice of caviling or raising captious objections; a caviling or quibbling objection or criticism.
    • Word Usage
    "Grammar concerning the kinds of words, their derivations, deflexions, and syntax; specially enriching the same with the helps of several languages, with their differing proprieties of words, phrases, and tropes; they might have found out more and better footsteps of common reason, help of disputation, and advantages of cavillation, than many of these which they have propounded."
     
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