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subtilty |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Subtilty \Sub"til*ty\, n. [Contr. fr subtility.] 1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. --Locke. 3. Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. --Chaucer. 4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. --Acts xiii. 10. Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.
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