Word of the Day
for Monday,
July 22, 2013
Quillet \KWIL-it\, noun:
a subtlety or quibble.
Some points involved
in the discussion of the question under consideration suggest legal quillets,
and exercises in scholastic logic, of a kind in which Aquinas and his brother
schoolmen, writers of patristic and mediaeval divinity, would have fairly
reveled.
-- Edited by Sir Frederick Pollock, The Law Quarterly Review, 1894
-- Edited by Sir Frederick Pollock, The Law Quarterly Review, 1894
O! some authority how
to proceed; Some tricks, some quillets,
how to cheat the devil.
-- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1598
-- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1598
Quillet is related to the word quiddity
meaning "a trifling nicety."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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