subtlety

subtlety englannista suomeksi

1. hiuksenhieno ero

2. hienovaraisuus, herkkyys

0. Substantiivi

1. hienovaraisuus

subtlety englanniksi

1. The quality of being subtle.

2. The quality of being scarcely noticeable or difficult to discern. (q)

(ux)

3. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/herzog0000bell_s1p6|pages=248–249|publisher=Viking|location=New York

4. The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully out. (q)

(syn)

5. The quality of being able to achieve one's aims through clever, delicate or indirect methods. (q)

''With all his usual subtlety, he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it.''

6. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/sophieschoicesty00styr|chapter=3|page=74|publisher=Random House|location=New York

7. The quality of being able to notice or understand things that are not obvious. (q)

8. (RQ:KJV)

9. {{quote-book|en|year=1770|author=Oliver Goldsmith|title=The Life of Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke|location=London|publisher=T. Davies|page=7|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004897239.0001.000

10. An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.

11. 1561, (w) ''et al.'' (translators), ''(w),'' (w) 8.8,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10675.0001.001

(..) she Wisdom knoweth the subtilties of wordes, and the solutions of darke sentences:

12. (RQ:Boyle Sceptical Chymist)

13. {{quote-text|en|year=1779|author=David Hume|title=Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion|section=Part 10, p. 112|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004895521.0001.000

14. (RQ:Hardy Woodlanders)

15. (quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|section=Part 4, Chapter 36, p. 366|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458774/page/n371

16. An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.

17. {{quote-book|en|year=1548|author=Edward Hall|title=The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke|location=London|publisher=Richard Grafton|chapter=The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02595.0001.001

18. The quality of being clever in surreptitious or deceitful behaviour; an act or argument that shows this quality.

19. {{quote-book|en|year=1575|author=George Gascoigne|title=The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting|location=London|publisher=Christopher Barker|chapter=Termes generall of the huntesman, in hunting of any chase|page=243|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14021.0001.001

20. (RQ:Sidney Arcadia)

21. (RQ:Homer Pope Iliad) the Spy was deceiv’d rather by the Art and Subtlety of (w), than by his Falshood.

22. (RQ:Austen Persuasion)

23. A trick that creates a false appearance.

24. (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)

25. The property of having a low density or thin consistency.

26. 1630, (w) (translator/editor), ''A Treatise of the Plague (..) Collected out of the workes of (..) (w),'' London, Chapter(nbs)11, p.(nbs)33,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08913.0001.001

Therefore at Paris where naturally, and also through the aboundance of filth that is about the Citie, the Aire is darke and grosse, the pestilent Infection is lesse fierce and contagious then it is in Prouince, for the subtletie of the Aire stimulates or helps forward the Plague.

27. {{quote-book|en|year=1692|author=Robert Boyle|title=General Heads for the Natural History of a Country Great or Small Drawn Out for the Use of Travellers and Navigators|location=London|publisher=John Tailor and S. Hedford|page=3|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28984.0001.001

28. The property of being able to penetrate materials easily.

29. (quote-text)|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004793050.0001.000|pages=37–38|location=London