subtilty
noun
an archaic variant of subtlety.
subtilties
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pluralof subtilty.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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You do yet taste Some subtilties o’ the isle, that will not let you V. 1.
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
Perhaps, by one of love's subtilties, she has chosen to bid him farewell under the very hawthorn-tree where he had first called her his.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
It was a great contrast to the subtilties of analysis, the philosophic strainings of which I had seen too much.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
Mr. St. John Harper's pictures are a trifle obscure; but their obscurity veils their want of pertinence and suggests subtilties that flatter the imagination into fitting the application to suit itself.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
A variety of ornaments, too, made their appearance, subtilties, they were called, and ornamental devices in pastry.
From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston
