fallency

An exception (to a rule).

Noun

  1. An exception (to a rule).
    • Maranta enumerates forty cases, in which a negative ought to be proved: and Socinus sets down eight hundred and two fallencies (that is the word of the law), concerning the contestation of suits and actions at law -...

Origin

From Latin fallentia, fallens, present participle of fallere. Doublet of failance.

Forms

fallencies