subtilty
[suht-l-tee, suhb-til-]
Also sub·til·i·ty [suhb-til-i-tee] /sʌbˈtɪl ɪ ti/.
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Related Words for subtilty
delicacy, inadequacy, rarity, scantiness, emaciation, meagerness, fineness, shallowness, sparseness, spareness, gauntness, tenuity, subtiltyExamples from the Web for subtilty
Historical Examples of subtilty
But thy eyes were too penetrating not to detect the subtilty.
The Autobiography of Madame GuyonJeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
If he can secure any suggestion of the subtilty and luminousness,—if he can!
He says of the sorcerer that he is a child of the devil and full of subtilty.
Epistle Sermons, Vol. IIMartin Luther
But in both these letters we see the subtilty and caution of the writers.
The Life of CiceroAnthony Trollope
I see no reason to qualify this moderation as subtilty, which Mills has not scrupled to do.
The History of ChivalryG. P. R. James