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▪ I. quibbling, vbl. n.|ˈkwɪblɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb quibble. Also with a and pl., an instance or specimen of this.
1628Shirley Witty Fair One iii. ii, I have made a quibbling in praise of her. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 36 You say you will bound, and you will not bound. It looks like quibbling. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 487 There's nothing which these disputants will not oppose by their niceties and quibblings. 1831R. Blakey Free-will 172 The various quibblings, shufflings, reservations, and qualifications..must be abundantly evident to every one. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 514 In spite of this quibbling, he was pronounced guilty.
▪ II. quibbling, ppl. a.|ˈkwɪblɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That quibbles; characterized by quibbles.
1657J. Jordan Walks Islington ii. ii, Pox on your Cobling jeasts, you quibling Coxcombe. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. ii. 250, I have detected the fraud of their quibling distinction. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. 353 A cunning quibbling attorney might..discover a flaw. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 266 The quibbling follies of the Sophists.
Hence ˈquibblingly adv.
1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't Post-scr., Their old method of talking preachingly, quotingly, and quibblingly. 1901W. J. Craig King Lear 117 note, Perhaps ‘roarer’ in Tempest I. i. 18, quibblingly applied to the raging waters. |