Definition of "cavilled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of cavil. (verb)

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• "And if they cavil at it, as MPs have cavilled and continue to cavil at the detection of their felonies, they may yet discover what the whoosh of the guillotine blade sounds like."
• "He cavilled in part like the priest Sabellius, who had cavilled like the Phrygian Praxeas, who was a great caviller."
• "The Christians sophisticated, cavilled, hated, and excommunicated one another, for some of these dogmas inaccessible to human intellect, before the time of Arius and Athanasius."