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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Technicality  \Tech`ni*cal"i*ty\,  n.;  pl  {Technicalities}. 
  1.  The  quality  or  state  of  being  technical;  technicalness. 
 
  2.  That  which  is  technical,  or  peculiar  to  any  trade 
  profession,  sect,  or  the  like 
 
  The  technicalities  of  the  sect.  --Palfrey. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  technicality 
  n  :  a  detail  that  is  considered  insignificant  [syn:  {trifle},  {triviality}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  TECHNICALITY,  n.  In  an  English  court  a  man  named  Home  was  tried  for 
  slander  in  having  accused  his  neighbor  of  murder.  His  exact  words 
  were:  "Sir  Thomas  Holt  hath  taken  a  cleaver  and  stricken  his  cook 
  upon  the  head,  so  that  one  side  of  the  head  fell  upon  one  shoulder  and 
  the  other  side  upon  the  other  shoulder."  The  defendant  was  acquitted 
  by  instruction  of  the  court,  the  learned  judges  holding  that  the  words 
  did  not  charge  murder,  for  they  did  not  affirm  the  death  of  the  cook, 
  that  being  only  an  inference. 
 
 




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