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What is the noun for cavilings?

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caviler
  1. A person who cavils; a faultfinder, quibbler or nitpicker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I say these things to teach us to be careful not to join the caviler in judging presumptuously the work and Word of God.”
      “Mr. caviler, your voice is harsh and grating too when you get very angry, isn't it?”
      “Cork was one example where the owner ran the club in a caviler manner.”
cavil
cavilation
  1. Alternative spelling of cavillation
caviller
  1. Alternative spelling of caviler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.”
      “Surely none but a caviller will find any want of harmony between these different modes of expression.”
      “I neither fear the critic or the caviller upon the ground-work of my address.”
cavilling
cavillation
  1. The act of cavilling.
  2. Examples:
    1. “An Answer unto a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation Devised by Stephen Gardiner.”
caviling
cavillations
  1. plural of cavillation
cavilations
  1. plural of cavilation
cavillings
cavilings
cavillers
  1. plural of caviller
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.”
      “Almost three years on, the carpers and cavillers are still complaining about the huge sums extracted from the telcos in the European 3G spectrum auctions.”
cavilers
  1. plural of caviler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The flock of chiders, complainers, carpers, cavilers, and castigators makes it harder and harder to get an optimistic note in edgewise.”
      “Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern.”
      Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly.”
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