fallax

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/ˈfæləks/

noun

cavillation; petty criticism

OriginLatin fallāx →
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Meanings

nounfallax (plural fallaxes)

plural fallaxes

  1. obsoletecavillation; 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

Origin

  1. Latinfallāx“deceptive”
  2. Englishfallax

Borrowed from Latin fallāx (“deceptive”).

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