Word Meanings - FALLAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.

Related words: (words related to FALLAX)

• CAVIL; CAVILER; CAVILLER
  One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.
• CAVILOUS; CAVILLOUS
  Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. -- Cav"il*ous*ly, adv. -- Cav"il*ous*ness, n.
• CAVILLATION
  Frivolous or sophistical objection. Hooker.
• CAVILING
  Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis.
• CAVIL
  To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.
• CAVILINGLY
  In a caviling manner.