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Definition of Subtleties
1. subtlety [n] - See also: subtlety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtleties
Literary usage of Subtleties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... the later periods of Greek literature, and abound in sophistical subtleties
and ornaments. The best of them are Achilles, Tatius, Heliodorus, Longus, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... by metaphysical subtleties, was degraded by the introduction of a popular
mythology, which tended to restore the reign of polytheism. ..."
3. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1900)
"Qualities of Medieval Taste—Allegory—Symbolism—The Bestiaries—Qualities of Early
Humanism—Scholastic Subtleties— ..."
4. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"Qualities of Medieval Taste—Allegory—Symbolism — The Bestiaries—Qualities of
Early Humanism—Scholastic Subtleties— ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and Thomists upon minor points and subtleties, and with some divergence of
opinion upon unimportant details, is now the common teaching of Catholic ..."
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