cavilling

English

Verb

cavilling

1. present participle and gerund of cavil

Noun

cavilling (plural cavillings)

1. cavillation
   • 1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis, page iii:

     God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school.