fallency

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfælənsi/

Noun

fallency (plural fallencies)

1. (obsolete, rare) An exception.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:

     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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fallency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)