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noun
Cavil  n.  A captious or frivolous objection. "All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief."


Kevel  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
2.
A stone mason's hammer. (Written also cavil)
Kevel head (Naut.), a projecting end of a timber, used as a kevel.


verb
Cavil  v. t.  To cavil at. (Obs.)


Cavil  v. i.  (past & past part. caviled or cavilled; pres. part. caviling or cavilling)  To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. "You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract."





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"Cavil" Quotes from Famous Books



... I see. You object to the word, not to the allegation. Well, I won't cavil about that. All my sympathy just now is concentrated on one unfortunate Britisher. My dear, let ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... which the proceedings on the question at issue were recorded. Villeray was directed to carry it to him. The records had been cautiously made; and, after studying them carefully, he could find nothing at which to cavil. ...
— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman
... be the cavil, we reply in the affirmative that the Scripture is true; that Jesus did mean all, and even more than he said or deemed it safe to say at that time. His [5] words are unmistakable, for they form propositions ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by men of like birth and education with himself—his altruism denounced as impracticable, his preaching compared with his mode of life to prove him inconsistent, ...
— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy
... the Gospel, and yet we cannot obey the Law, unless, through the Gospel, we have been born again, since we cannot love God, unless the remission of sins has been received. For as long as we feel that He is angry with us, human nature flees from His wrath and judgment. If any one should make a cavil such as this: If that be faith which wishes those things that are offered in the promise, the habits of faith and hope seem to be confounded, because hope is that which expects promised things, to this we reply that these dispositions cannot in reality be severed, ...
— The Apology of the Augsburg Confession • Philip Melanchthon


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