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:
“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud—and it is here above all that exceptions prove the rule—that everything that exists in nature exists in art.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)