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/tˌɛknɪkˈælɪti/ Listen

noun

Technicality n. (pl. technicalities)

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. "The technicalities of the sect."

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Etymology of 'Technicality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Technicality" Quotes from Famous Books

... his animus when he charges that Cook did not give the natives the real value of their hogs and fruit, and also that he had no right to stop pilferers in canoes by declaring and enforcing a blockade. This is a trifling technicality much insisted upon. Dibble's account of the death ...

— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead

... his associates were criminally indicted in 1954—but the Department of Justice dismissed the indictments on a legal technicality later that ...

— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot

... animated counsel. They knew of the proposed withdrawal of Tammany, which seemed to them to smooth the way for the acceptance of their credentials, but the resolution came with startling suddenness. It narrowed the question of their admission to a mere technicality and cut off debate. Tilden, appreciating the ambuscade into which he had fallen, exhausted every expedient to modify the parliamentary situation, knowing it to be in the power of the convention to accept another delegation ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... aptitude for details, he liked county business for its own sake, and understood every technicality. With little or no personal ambition, he had assisted in every political and social movement in the county for half a century, and knew the secret motives of every individual landowner. With large wealth, nothing to do, and childless, he took a liking to young Marthorne. The old man wished for ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

... he protested, "don't you see? If the case ever comes into court, even if I get off, every one will know that it is through a technicality. The evidence is too strong. Half the world at least ...

— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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