subtilty

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The adoption of this ingenious device to avoid compliance with unnatural obligations, affords an instance of the singular duplicity into which the subtilty of pious craft may betray human nature.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

What presence of mind, what subtilty, what truth, in his replies!

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

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)

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

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.