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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At dinner, he pecks at, rather than eats, ruffs and reeves, lapwings, or anie smalle birds it may chance; but affects sweets and subtilties, and loves a cup of wine or ale, stirred with rosemary.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
Even an illiterate man is interesting when he talks of his craft, and Martin Collingwood, however little natural development he had in social subtilties, was anything but illiterate or even ill informed.
From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee
But, if their doctrine be divested of those subtilties, and expressed in plain language, it will be found that nothing in what our author, with other spiritualists, calls mystical theology, contradicts common sense.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
We all went in, and there they made us goodly cheer with diverse subtilties, as comfits and march-panes and sweet wines.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
He was to fight; and that was an idea that stood him in better stead than a whole library of ethical subtilties.
From Now or Never The Adventures of Bobby Bright by Oliver Optic
