Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who errs, or who encourages and propagates error.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

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  • noun One who encourages and propagates error.
  • noun One who holds onto an erroneous belief.

Etymologies

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error +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Contrary to the assumption of the mad errorist, there simply isn't any logically possible transition from rU to oU, because there is no possible world in which a member of the set of all forever observerless universes is identical with a member of the set of all universes containing observers.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Nicky Loh/Reuters TO ERR IS HUMAN: A security guard looked at the "We are all errorist" art piece from the Spanish group Internacional Errorista at a Taiwan museum Friday.

    Today's Photos: Sept. 19 2008

  • A first counter move would clearly be to strike at the US heartland via the t errorist network.

    Think Progress » Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran 2006

  • Farrell initiated a review after Barrett spoke on a radio talk show last month about his views that the 2001 errorist attacks were a government conspiracy designed to spark war in the Middle East.

    Think Progress » A second aide to Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) 2006

  • This week's winning bumpersticker from the Thursday delivery route showed a drawing of George W. Bush and said "American errorist."

    Errorist in chief David 2005

  • This week's winning bumpersticker from the Thursday delivery route showed a drawing of George W. Bush and said "American errorist."

    Archive 2005-07-01 David 2005

  • Time for DECENT Americans to call out the TeaPotN.ut ­ters and the Politician­s who embrace these Economic T.errorist smilingasa: RIGHT ON!

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Until the [[September 11th attacks]] in 2001, this was the deadlistt errorist incident in the [[United States]].

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I call for all Queen's students to rise up against the errorist threat, whether you are a victim of American hegemony, an empathetically marginalized philosophy major or if you simply harbour guilt that your father is the vice-president of TD bank and is paying your tuition.

    Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics 2008

  • We are heartened to see the counter-errorist troops in the SGPS fighting to gain a thought foothold among graduate students.

    Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics 2008

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  • A member of a fanatical cult who blows himself up in a mannequin factory.

    March 4, 2009

  • Not a neologism, as tagged:

    "The drunkard promises a speedy reformation; but the errorist in principle, although led to the commission of the blackest crimes, presses forward in the full persuasion that he is doing his duty" --The Christian Magazine, Vol. 2, p.47. 1825.

    October 17, 2011

  • Some fail at the truth, though they try.

    Some fear climate change, so deny,

    But the true eco-terrorist's

    The cold-blooded errorist

    Who knowingly sells the big lie.

    January 28, 2017