Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtileness
Literary usage of Subtileness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"1. subtileness (sut'il-nes or sub'til-nes), n. [< subtile + -ness. Cf. subtleness.
... subtileness or subtleness ; the quality of being subtile or subtle. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"In a subtile manner ; thinly ; not densely ; finely ; net grossly.
subtileness, (snb'-til-nes) ni Fineness ; rareness ; cunning ; artfulness. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1907)
"His mind was therefore preeminently scientific in the highest sense of the word,
and no modern thinker has surpassed him in subtileness and power of ..."
4. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1840)
"... than to their actually entering into combination with them; and as from the
laws of their motions, or from their extreme subtileness, they are incapable ..."
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