subtilty

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 Victor Cousin

I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle

O ye simple, understand subtilty; And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

I must note here the subtilty of this retreat.

From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant

For ought not true art to work upon us like a higher Nature, without putting forth much ingenuity and subtilty, without all that complication of poetical affinities and philosophical finesse?

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse

But the vigilance of a fond father was too easily eluded by the subtilties of an enterprising man, who spared neither time nor money to compass his illaudable schemes.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

Perhaps, by one of love's subtilties, she has chosen to bid him farewell under the very hawthorn-tree where he had first called her his.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

Mr. St. John Harper's pictures are a trifle obscure; but their obscurity veils their want of pertinence and suggests subtilties that flatter the imagination into fitting the application to suit itself.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

And this in spite of Suárez, whose formal subtilties do not merit the name of philosophy.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

This learned man frequently wandered in the mazes of metaphysical subtilties; and became perfectly unintelligible to his readers.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli