cavilling

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of cavil

noun

  1. cavillation
    God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school. 1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis, page iii

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