Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an erring manner.
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- adverb In an
erring manner; withmistakes orsins .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And very often, I have seen that people who thought - most erringly - that they need no help made very bad mistakes due to that attitude!
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March 9, 2006, 12: 52 pm world cup winners says: world cup winners camouflaging erringly! snuggle catastrophic
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Not deviating from their steady course of maintaining mass-confusion, the government lawyer yesterday commented that they were revising that withdrawn environmental assessment, which they erringly referred to as a 'study.'
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Inger is sad and down-hearted enough; ay, so erringly faithful that she mourns for him.
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Ash had been wrestling for a few days with the part about Darcourt also not being quite as late as was erringly suggested by events such as his funeral, so it could have been that he was all out of astonishment.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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He does, I know, so present Him as a man inspired, and strenuously, inadequately and erringly presenting
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I know not in what valley they wander erringly: do they not see that they depart and return not?
A Traveler’s Narrative 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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I know not how long they shall ride the steed of desire and wander erringly in the desert of heedlessness and error.
A Traveler’s Narrative 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness.
My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878
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