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fallaxes

fallaxes is the plural of fallax.

Meaning of fallax

Noun

fallax (plural fallaxes)

  1. (obsolete) cavillation; petty criticism
    • First, after the sum of my fourth book, collected as pleaseth you, at the first dash you begin with an untrue report, joined to a subtle deceit or fallax, saying that my chief purpose that evil men receive not the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament.a. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gadiner

Questions about fallaxes

What is fallaxes the plural of?
Fallaxes is the plural of fallax.

Words near fallaxes in the dictionary

  1. Fallas
  2. Fallases
  3. fallaway
  4. fallaways
  5. fallax
  6. fallaxes
  7. fallaxidin
  8. fallaxidins
  9. fallaxin
  10. fallback
  11. fallbacks

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