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QUILLET

Definition: QUILLET

QUILLET

Noun

1. Subtilty; nicety; quibble.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Quillet \Quil"let\, noun. [Latin expression quidlibet what you please. Compare to Quiddit, and Quibble.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: QUILLET

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Literature

Quillet An evasion. In French "pleadings" each separate allegation in the plaintiff's charge, and every distinct plea in the defendant's answer used to begin with qu'il est; whence our quillet, to signify a false charge, or an evasive answer.
"Oh, some authority how to proceed;
Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the
Devil."
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: QUILLET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Reasoning,

Sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency, antilogy; "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"; claptrap, cant, mere words; "lame and impotent conclusion".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: QUILLET

Etymologies containing "QUILLET": Quiddit. (references)

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Commercial Usage: QUILLET

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Books

  • Dictionnaire encyclopâedique Quillet (reference)

  • Dictionnaire Encylopedique Quillet Set 10 vols. (reference)

  • Dictionnaire Quillet de la Langue Francais Set 4 vols (reference)

  • Encyclopâedie des sciences industrielles Quillet : nouvelle encyclopâedie pratique de mâecanique, d'âelectricitâe et d'âelectronique : unitâes, normes, index (reference)

  • Encyclopedie Autodidactique Quillet Set 5 vols. (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: QUILLET

Language Translations for "QUILLET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukrainian

  

тонкість (delicacy, fineness, finesse, polish, quiddity, subtlety), каверза (devilment, quiddity). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lời bắt bẻ sợi tóc chẻ l m tư. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: QUILLET

Derivations

Words beginning with "QUILLET": quillets. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "QUILLET"

Words rhyming with "QUILLET" (pronounced 'Quil"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corselet, Corslet, Couplet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, gullet, Hamlet, Haslet, Inlet, islet, kinglet, leaflet, Liplet, Lobelet, mallet, Martlet, millet, Mountlet, Murrelet, necklet, Notelet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: QUILLET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-q-t-u"

-1 letter: tuille.

-2 letters: quell, quiet, quill, quilt, quite, tulle, utile.

-3 letters: etui, lieu, lilt, lite, litu, lute, quit, tell, tile, till, tule.

-4 letters: ell, ill, lei, let, leu, lie, lit, tel, tie, til, tui.

-5 letters: el, et, it, li, ti, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-q-t-u"
 

+1 letter: quillets.

 

+3 letters: squalliest.

 

+4 letters: aquarellist, equilateral, equipollent, tranquiller.

 

+5 letters: aquarellists, delinquently, equationally, equipollents, equivalently, ineloquently, sequentially, tranquillest, tranquillize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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