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cavilling

cavilling

English

Verb

cavilling

present participle of cavil

Noun

cavilling ‎(plural cavillings)

cavillation
- 1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis (page iii)
  God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school.