caviller
Example Sentences
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So that in what has been hitherto printed of the Testament, there is little, if any thing, with which any one but a professed caviller can find fault.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
A public accuser would be intolerable, or even a caviller, who should inveigh against sins for which he himself is called in question.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
"The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 or 5.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
He was no conceited or froward caviller at authority, nor born rebel against established teachers and governors.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by John Morley
This is a fine legal quibble, stated for a purpose; but since legal minds disagree upon this point, a caviller might say no law is self-executing; all laws require enforcement.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
