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Definition of Cavilers
1. caviler [n] - See also: caviler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavilers
Literary usage of Cavilers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vision (1892)
"... down contention and false doctrine, and silencing cavilers? Where had the "house
of God" been "set in order?7' These, and a host of other questions were ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1840)
"... the influence of a majority which shuts the mouth of all cavilers, may long
perpetuate the delusions of a people as well as those of a man. ..."
3. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. It is a
chapel, now, however—the Chapel of St. Helena. ..."
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