Obs. rare. Also 7 quillety. [? 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. Mrs. Behn, Sir Patient Fancy, V. i. 80. We shall soon rectify the quiblets and quillities of his bloud, if he observes our directions and diet.]
