Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being inerrable; freedom or exemption from error or from the possibility of erring; infallibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Freedom or
exemption fromerror ;infallibility .
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Examples
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"If we are to believe in the inerrability of a person, or a body of persons, because it is, forsooth, necessary for the full preservation of the truth, we must then also believe in all besides that can be shown to be needful for the perfect attainment of that end.
The Faith of Islam Edward Sell
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Fourth — Finally, the inerrability of the Popes, being restricted to questions of faith and morals, does not extend to the natural sciences, such as astronomy or geology, unless where error is presented under the false name of science, and arrays itself against revealed truth. (
The Faith of Our Fathers James Gibbons 1877
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