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quiddity
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synonyms: cavil, quillet ???
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Definition:1. the essence of a thing2. a trifling objection; quibble
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it behoves youth with all industry to search not only the hard questions of the philosophers, but also the fine cafés of the lawyers, not only the quirks and quiddities of the logicians, but also to have a sight in the numbers of the arithmeticians,
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, p.138 (1578)
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HAMLET: There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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