Meanings
comparative more inerrable · superlative most inerrable
- Incapable of error; infallible, unerring.
We have conviction from reason, or decisions from the inerrable and requisite conditions of sense.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC1 more example
Not that their statements are inerrable; but they constitute the best working material in our possession
1890, William Ewart Gladstone, The impregnable rock of Holy Scripture
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot liable to error
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininerrabilis
- Englishinerrable
From Latin inerrabilis. Compare Portuguese inerrável. See in- (“not”) + err + -able.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian непогрешим
- непогрешим (nepogrešim)Incapable of error
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