Technicality
[,teknɪ'kælɪtɪ] or [,tɛknɪ'kæləti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.
(n.) That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: 'Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder. ' The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder for they did not affirm the death of the cook that being only an inference.
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Examples
- I will try to make my explanation briefly and plainly, and to keep it free from professional obscurities and technicalities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a swift discussion of technicalities. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is a purely formal document, full of legal technicalities, and all that sort of thing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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