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technicality |
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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