captiousness

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English

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Etymology

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From captious +‎ -ness.

Noun

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captiousness (usually uncountable, plural captiousnesses)

  1. the state of being captious
  2. captious behaviour

Quotations

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  • 1819, Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons:
    In this manner, they degrade religion into a spirit of captiousness.
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