Subtility - definition, pronunciation

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Amer.   American pronunciation of the word subtility
Brit.   British pronunciation of the word subtility

noun

- 1665, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them without money.
- Excessive refinement of argument; casuistry.
- A convoluted or refined argument.
- Fineness; subtlety.
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