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One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.

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  1. n. One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
  2. n. a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions
  3. One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
  4. One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions inreasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
  5. n. a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions