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Caviling   Listen
adjective
Caviling  adj.  Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. "His depreciatory and caviling criticism."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Caviling" Quotes from Famous Books



... faith we ought to oppose to God's wrath Christ as Mediator, and not our works. Neither let godly minds be disturbed, even though the adversaries find fault with the judgments of Paul. Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling. We know that what we have mentioned is the true and genuine meaning of Paul, we know that this our belief brings to godly consciences [in agony of death and temptation] sure comfort, without which no one can ...
— The Apology of the Augsburg Confession • Philip Melanchthon



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