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English
Noun
vitilitigation (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) cavillous litigation; petty criticism or objection
1674, Walter Charleton, The Natural History of Passions:I am not so addicted to vitilitigation, as to contend about the propriety of those expressions in scripture, which seem to ascribe all our sacred passions principaly to the heart.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678; republished in A R Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:I'll force you by right ratiocination
To leave your vitilitigation,
And make you keep to th' question close,
And argue dialecticos
References
“vitilitigation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.