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Definition of Hairsplitters
1. hairsplitter [n] - See also: hairsplitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairsplitters
Literary usage of Hairsplitters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"... of such forms as are observed to pass into each other during our present period
of experience, I hope to avoid the views of the so-called hairsplitters. ..."
2. Sketches of Soviet Russia: Whole Cloth and Patches by John Cushing Varney (1920)
"So men have been declared right or wrong according to the decrees of the greatest
hairsplitters. This is typical of the old religion as it is of the old ..."
3. Sketches of Soviet Russia: Whole Cloth and Patches by John Cushing Varney (1920)
"So men have been declared right or wrong according to the decrees of the greatest
hairsplitters. This is typical of the old religion as it is of the old ..."
4. Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg (2003)
"... them as an example because Jesus condemned them as intellectually dishonest
hairsplitters who observed the law in letter but not in spirit. [GRJ] 198. ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1889)
"The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that shaving on Sunday is unnecessary
or is not a necessity — hairsplitters may distinguish between the two phrases ..."
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