captiousness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
captiousness (usually uncountable, plural captiousnesses)
- the state of being captious
- captious behaviour
Quotations[edit]
- 1819, Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons:
- In this manner, they degrade religion into a spirit of captiousness.