finespun

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From fine + spun.

[299] “A foolish man, who fritters away the weight of matters by finespun trifling on words.”—Vide Quint. x. — Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients, Francis Bacon
Had he found the true church all of a sudden in winding up to the end like a reel of cotton some finespun line of reasoning upon insufflation on the imposition of hands or the procession of the Holy Ghost? — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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