subtilty

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And yet one last observation I would like to make, remembering Bacon's subtilty, and how his every utterance is the sum of matured analytical thought.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

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

No artist is disposed to apologise for the presence of subtilty in Art, nor I for the subtle device of Bacon's garden.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

There was a terseness and massiveness in his speech, curiously blended with subtilty and fervor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

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

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