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Definition: QUILLET |
QUILLETNoun1. Subtilty; nicety; quibble. |
Etymology: Quillet \Quil"let\, noun. [Latin expression quidlibet what you please. Compare to Quiddit, and Quibble.]. (Websters 1913) |
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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. |
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: QUILLET |
| Etymologies containing "QUILLET": Quiddit. (references) |
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| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUILLET": quillets. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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