subtilty

American  

[suht-l-tee, suhb-til-] / ˈsʌt l ti, ˈsʌb tɪl- /

Also subtility

noun

Archaic.

plural

subtilties

1. an archaic variant of subtlety.

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Other Word Forms

• nonsubtilty noun

Example Sentences

What man can pause and charge this senseless dust With fraud, or subtilty, or aught unjust?

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Though now his fortune was low, yet he got another ship with craft and subtilty, and in it twenty-one men.

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So far there was nothing singular in my father’s opinion,—he had the best of philosophers, of all ages and climates, to go along with him.——But here he took a road of his own, setting up another Shandean hypothesis upon these corner-stones they had laid for him;——and which said hypothesis equally stood its ground; whether the subtilty and fineness of the soul depended upon the temperature and clearness of the said liquor, or of the finer network and texture in the cerebellum itself; which opinion he favoured.

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The doctrine, you see, was laid down by Erasmus, as my father wished it, with the utmost plainness; but my father’s disappointment was, in finding nothing more from so able a pen, but the bare fact itself; without any of that speculative subtilty or ambidexterity of argumentation upon it, which Heaven had bestow’d upon man on purpose to investigate truth, and fight for her on all sides.——My father pish’d and pugh’d at first most terribly———’tis worth something to have a good name.

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Subtilty of motives, refinements of feelings, delicacies of susceptibility, were rarely appreciated.

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