cavilling
English edit
Verb edit
cavilling
- present participle and gerund of cavil
Noun edit
cavilling (plural cavillings)
- cavillation
- 1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis, page iii:
- God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school.