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Definition of the day : « hair-splitting »
- As in hypercritical : adj captious
- There is my defence on Terminus, or better say on hair-splitting.
- Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
- It is a danger to which ingenious and hair-splitting writers are liable.
- Extract from : « Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather » by Charles W. Upham
- This is not hair-splitting in the opprobrious sense of that term.
- Extract from : « Essays In Pastoral Medicine » by Austin Malley
- I know your hair-splitting habit; I at once anticipate your reply.
- Extract from : « The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II.(of II) » by Charles James Lever
- But he disliked the corrupt method of his countrymen, who indulged in hair-splitting, casuistry, and subtleties.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz
- Moreover, this hair-splitting was considered sublimest piety, and superseded everything else.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz
- Plain and safe men never disparaged his arguments by calling them hair-splitting or metaphysical.
- Extract from : « The Brothers' War » by John Calvin Reed
- The man who goes to law surrenders his liberty of action and becomes the sport of chicaning lawyers and hair-splitting judges.
- Extract from : « Mr. Fortescue » by William Westall
- It will not be worth our while to wade through all the technical and hair-splitting discussions of these points.
- Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
- It is better, however, not to raise the question with beginners, since it seems to them like hair-splitting to no purpose.
- Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith