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Cavillation   Listen
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Cavillation  n.  Frivolous or sophistical objection. (Obs.)






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"Cavillation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thomaso Cranmero. It is not now in that library—is it in any other? I suppose it may be a translation, made by Francisco Dryander or Enzinas, translator of the Spanish New Testament, 1543, of—"An Answer by the Right Rev. Father in God, Thomas, Abp. of Canterbury, unto a crafty and sophistical cavillation devised by Stephen Gardener," &c. Dryander came to this country with Bucer, recommended to Cranmer by Melancthon, and resided two months in the Archbishop's house before he went to Cambridge to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 • Various



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