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- noun Plural form of
caviling .
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Examples
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And Mel, to his credit despite my Protestant theological cavilings with his script, understands this, and has created a movie about this central event as a gift to God in exactly the same way that rich guys in medieval times would commission a stained-glass window for the cathedral -- "sermons for the ignorant," they used to be called, even if Mel's sermon seems rather to be preaching to the choir.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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My Protestant theological cavilings are probably why, although the movie moved me as a film, and made me ponder and again encounter the Passion as a Christian, it didn't really affect me as a religious event -- not, say, the way that taking communion does.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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The triumphant success of She Stoops to Conquer brought forth, of course, those carpings and cavilings of underling scribblers which are the thorns and briers in the path of successful authors.
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One at least, who was constrained to say the other thing in public, made up for it by bitter and contemptuous cavilings in private.
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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One at least, who was constrained to say the other thing in public, made up for it by bitter and contemptuous cavilings in private.
The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook
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One old religious, who was such in all things, in order to avoid cavilings and inquisitions went to confess to him; and told him that he knew most positively that they wished to kill him, and that he should relinquish his office.
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Such fundamental and vital preoccupations as religion, love, war, and the chase stir impulses that lie far back in human history and which effectually repudiate the cavilings of ratiocination.
The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform James Harvey Robinson 1899
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It betrayed him into visionary speculations, which subjected him to the sneers and cavilings of men of cooler and safer but more groveling minds.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892
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But in answer to such objections, Governor Johnson, and those who co-operated with him, could urge that the objections and cavilings of all critics seemed to ignore the controlling fact that they were acting in
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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Such consternation of soul, such despondency, could have been caused by no other than the censure of the enemy and the cavilings of the infidel and perverse.
The Kitáb-i-Íqán 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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