English

Noun

vitilitigation ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) cavillous litigation; petty criticism or objection

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)

   • 1674, Walter Charleton, The Natural History of Passions

     I am not so addicted to vitilitigation, as to contend about the propriety of those expressions in scripture, which seem to ascribe all our sacred passions principaly ^[sic] to the heart.