CAVILLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caviller mean? 

• CAVILLER (noun)
  The noun CAVILLER has 1 sense:

1. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

  Familiarity information: CAVILLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAVILLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

caviler; caviller; pettifogger; quibbler

Hypernyms ("caviller" is a kind of...):

malcontent (a person who is discontented or disgusted)

Derivation:

cavil (raise trivial objections)

 Context examples 

Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)