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Definition of Subtilities
1. subtility [n] - See also: subtility
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtilities
Literary usage of Subtilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities by Gabriel Compayré (1893)
"Books and methods — The Bible and the Book of Sentences by Peter Lombard —
Exposition and discussion — subtilities and cavilling—The geometrical method ..."
2. Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities by Gabriel Compayré (1893)
"Books and methods — The Bible and the Book of Sentences by Peter Lombard —
Exposition and discussion — subtilities and cavilling—The geometrical method ..."
3. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius (1853)
"In that labor he also occasionally employed subtilities. and such reasons as are
not at ... Therefore, the subtilities which he employed on that occasion, ..."
4. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius (1853)
"Therefore, the subtilities which he employed on that occasion, ... a rigid enemy
he was of all subtilities and of lofty language ; and even those whom he ..."
5. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1916)
"I am disgusted with its subtilities and perplexed by its intricacy particularly
from want of knowing its practice: how much is to be lamented that the ..."
6. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"For men to have recourse to subtilities in raising difficulties, and then complain,
that they should be taken off by minutely examining these subtilities, ..."
7. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume (1751)
"... subtilities may not be greater than the Sir- tilities of Lawyers^ hinted at
above; but as the former ..."
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