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n. - Making too fine distinctions of little importance.

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Usage examples (7)
  • It is full of word-splitting and conjuring with terms, and abounds in natural history facts.
  • We have trudged at your bidding thousands of weary miles, for an end you made impossible by your word-splitting cowardice.
  • As in the opening of the Dialogue he ridicules the interpreters of mythology; as in the Protagoras he mocks at the Sophists; as in the Euthydemus he makes fun of the...
  • Philometor -- who fought like a lion this morning -- perceives that he is more fit to be a commander of horse, a lute-player, an attentive host of word-splitting guests...
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