subtilty

[suht-l-tee, suhb-til-]

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noun, plural sub·til·ties. Archaic.

subtlety.

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Also sub·til·i·ty

[suhb-til-i-tee] /sʌbˈtɪl ɪ ti/.

Related formsnon·sub·til·i·ty, noun

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delicacy inadequacy rarity scantiness emaciation meagerness fineness shallowness sparseness spareness gauntness tenuity subtilty

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Historical Examples

But thy eyes were too penetrating not to detect the subtilty.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
If he can secure any suggestion of the subtilty and luminousness,—if he can!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
Various
He says of the sorcerer that he is a child of the devil and full of subtilty.
Epistle Sermons, Vol. II
Martin Luther
But in both these letters we see the subtilty and caution of the writers.
The Life of Cicero
Anthony Trollope
I see no reason to qualify this moderation as subtilty, which Mills has not scrupled to do.
The History of Chivalry
G. P. R. James