SUBTILTY

Noun

subtilty (countable and uncountable, plural subtilties)

Archaic spelling of subtlety.

Source: Wiktionary


Sub"til*ty, n. Etym: [Contr. fr. subtility.]

1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke.

3. Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.

4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii. 10.

Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

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