Cavilling

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    cavillation

    "God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of cavil form-of, gerund, participle, present

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fault-findinggripehypercriticismlegalisticovercriticalpeevish

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"God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school."

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