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Definition
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; or to raise trivial objections
- You will tell me, I know, that this may or may NOT have happened; but I will listen to no cavil, unless you can point out any other method of understanding the affair as satisfactory at this.Chapter 15 (46% in)
There are no more uses of "cavil" in Sense and Sensibility.
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