casuistical
Example Sentences
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It is entirely free from all casuistical crotchets and distinctions without a difference.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles
Dr. Johnson, who, if any one, has the reputation of being a sturdy moralist, thus speaks: "We talked," says Boswell, "of the casuistical question—whether it was allowable at any time to depart from truth."
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
Hence it is that he is copied even in the casual mistakes he made; and all the casuistical works recently published have inserted in their pages those mistakes.
From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by
The tone is all the tone of cultivated society, the appeal is an appeal to the refined, casuistical intelligence.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
So they developed a joyful lot of casuistical distinctions as to which kind of oaths were binding and which didn't count.
From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter
