absoluteness, care for truth, culture, evasive reasoning, flimsiness, intricacy, niceness of distinction, punctiliousness, sensibility, subtility, vagueness
Definitionn. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
Last update: September 13, 2015
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Under an appearance of much vain subtlety the controversy about universals involved issues of the greatest speculative and practical importance: realism represented a spiritual, nominalism an anti-spiritual, view of the world; while realism was evidently favourable, and nominalism unfavourable, to the teaching of the Church on the dogmas of the Trinity and the Eucharist. [Please select]
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There are dreams when we reason with correctness and even with subtlety. [Please select]
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It is impossible to give an idea of the refinement and subtlety of all her transformations. [Please select]
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And in all matters of tact and subtlety Deerehurst was an adept. [Please select]
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Life is the very Deuce," said I, with a wry appreciation of the subtlety of language." [Please select]
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An immaterial subtlety this, properly out of the range of mamma's concrete observations. [Please select]
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This subtlety was past the vision of the donator of the Dabney House. [Please select]
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