Exceptions
The following sections list exceptions to the basic form; many will not be exceptions to the augmented forms.
Words which break each half of the rule include cheiromancies, cleidomancies, eigenfrequencies, obeisancies, and oneiromancies.
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Famous quotes containing the word exceptions:
“... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)