Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which subtilizes; one who makes very nice distinctions; a hair- splitter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who subtilizes.
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- noun One who
subtilizes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I find him greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons, this subtilizer and irresistible upward force, into our thought, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing.
Representative Men 2006
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But I find him greater when he can abolish himself, and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons; this subtilizer, and irresistible upward force, into our thought, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing.
Uses of Great Men 1914
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But I find him greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons, this subtilizer and irresistible upward force, into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power is so great that the potentate is nothing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But I find him greater, when he can abolish himself, and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons; this subtilizer, and irresistible upward force, into our thought, destroying individualism; the power so great, that the potentate is nothing.
Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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But I find him greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons, this subtilizer and irresistible upward force, into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power is so great that the potentate is nothing. ” “The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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