vitilitigation

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noun

cavillous litigation; petty criticism or objection

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Meanings

nounvitilitigation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleterareuncountablecavillous litigation; petty criticism or objection

    I'll force you by right ratiocination To leave your vitilitigation, And make you keep to th' question close, And argue dialecticos

    1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC
    1 more example

    I am not so addicted to vitilitigation, as to contend about the propriety of those expressions in scripture, which seem to ascribe all our sacred passions principaly ^([sic]) to the heart.

    1674, Walter Charleton, The Natural History of Passions
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