† ˈquillity Obs. rare.
Also 7 quillety.
[? An alteration of quiddity 2.]
A quillet, a quibble.
| 1573 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 135 In nise poyntes and quillityes none more præcise. 1616 Abp. Matthews in Usher's Lett. (1686) 36 Our adversaries do not..intangle others..in any one Quillity, or Cavil, more than in that particular. |
| transf. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. xi. (1900) 56 One of them would call it..her staffe of love, her quillety. [1678 A. Behn Sir P. Fancy v. i, We shall soon rectifie the quiblets and quillities of his blood, if he observes our directions and diet.] |