pettifoggery

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  1. The practice of a pettifogger; conduct becoming to a pettifogger; tricks; quibbles. The last and lowest sort of thir Arguments, that Men purchas'd not thir Tithe, with thir Land, and such like Pettifoggery, I omit, as refuted sufficiently by others. Milton, Touching Hirelings.

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