subtilty

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Quiddit, kwid′it, n. an equivocation: a subtilty or quibble.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Without vain subtilty, there is a real distinction between free will and spontaneous liberty.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

The Apostle recognises, beyond the subtilty of Jacob and behind the blessing of Isaac, the Divine retribution.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles

But there is a variety and subtilty in the Anglo-Saxon measure which is not found in the Middle English, and which is much more definitely under metrical rules.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)

All the dark suggestions which subtilty could imagine, vanished one after another, in the light thrown upon them by Henry Trevethlan's own conduct.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy