Intricacies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intricacy \In"tri*ca*cy\, n.; pl. {Intricacies}. [From
     {Intricate}.]
     The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
     perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which
     is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the
     intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in


     controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
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           Freed from intricacies, taught to live
           The easiest way.                         --Milton.
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