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Difficile

//ˈdɪ.fə.səl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Hard to work with; stubborn. obsolete
  2. 2
    Difficult. obsolete

    "[…] forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery."

Etymology

From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis (“easy”).

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