Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an infallible manner; without failure or mistake; certainly; surely.

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

  • adverb In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.

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  • adverb In an infallible manner; The pope speaks infallibly ex cathedra.

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Examples

  • How you tread the narrow line of nature's truth so infallibly is more than I can understand.

    Familiar Letters of William James I 1920

  • When you produce statements by Bishops, Cardinals and Popes that are out of sync with doctrines and statements made today, the reply is that they weren't made "infallibly".

    Kicking S Lindsay Stewart 2008

  • What I do take great trouble to show is that such changes have not negated any doctrine that has been "infallibly" taught according to the Church's own criteria for infallibility.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Mike L 2006

  • What I do take great trouble to show is that such changes have not negated any doctrine that has been "infallibly" taught according to the Church's own criteria for infallibility.

    The Fall and Rise of the Neocaths Mike L 2006

  • Matthew Kirby of The Continuum like to argue that, by the theological criteriology of Catholicism itself, the Catholic Church has never "infallibly" taught that OHCAC subsists in the Roman communion as an integral whole.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006

  • Matthew Kirby of The Continuum like to argue that, by the theological criteriology of Catholicism itself, the Catholic Church has never "infallibly" taught that OHCAC subsists in the Roman communion as an integral whole.

    The gnosticism of branch theory Mike L 2006

  • And because in Catholic belief popes can in some instances speak "infallibly" on matters of faith, it is possible to claim that the pope's recognition of a religious order's charism, characteristic work, and founder is an infallible judgment.

    Spero News 2009

  • Rabbi Tucker's proposal, which remains a dissent to the more conservative majority opinions accepted by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, argues that "God's will is not infallibly represented in the Torah, but only imperfectly, in a form that awaits the engagement and honest searching of religious communities."

    Miriam Lazewatsky: Renewal And Rededication: Supporting LGBT Equality During Hanukkah Miriam Lazewatsky 2011

  • Rabbi Tucker's proposal, which remains a dissent to the more conservative majority opinions accepted by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, argues that "God's will is not infallibly represented in the Torah, but only imperfectly, in a form that awaits the engagement and honest searching of religious communities."

    Miriam Lazewatsky: Renewal And Rededication: Supporting LGBT Equality During Hanukkah Miriam Lazewatsky 2011

  • I smell it out, as it were, and when I see it, I know it infallibly for what it is … or is not.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

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