Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make an error or misjudgment.
- intransitive verb To commit an act that is wrong; do wrong.
- intransitive verb Archaic To stray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wander; go in a devious and uncertain course.
- To deviate from the true course or purpose; hence, to wander from truth or from the path of duty; depart from rectitude; go astray morally.
- To go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; blunder; misapprehend.
- To mislead; cause to deviate from truth or rectitude.
- To miss; mistake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Archaic To wander; to roam; to stray.
- intransitive verb To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
- intransitive verb To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
- intransitive verb To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
- intransitive verb To offend, as by erring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To make a
mistake . - verb intransitive To
sin . - verb archaic to
stray .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to make a mistake or be incorrect
- verb wander from a direct course or at random
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Having argued that the right of slavery, if it exist, implies the right to shoot and murder an enlightened neighbor, with a view to reduce his wife and children to a state of servitude, as well as to crush their intellectual and moral nature in order to keep them in such a state, the author adds, "If I err in making these inferences, I _err innocently_."
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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phpBB.com kjavia795 2010
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phpBB.com Planet Styles 2010
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To err is human, as the old cliché goes, and I think those points at which we all err in the book are the very things that will draw people in.
A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates author of The Beautiful Struggle 2010
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In lieu of a Guassian distribution of the results, 12% of pollsters felt that 34% of statisticians are in err if applying any type of Geiger's method toward normalization of the results.
CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans 2009
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To err is human, this is my last spasm of carping about this-I need the pins out of the dolls to hold my pants together.
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To err is human, to be intentionally wrong all the time requires a liberal!
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To err is human, but to pass judgement on other people is to leave one to judged.
Top South Carolina Republican calls for Sanford to resign 2009
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This health care bill is subject to much corruption as if we didn't learn from the recent mistakes of stimulus plan that the Democrats push and are in err of reporting the job they save.
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate 2009
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Even the best intentioned will sometimes blunder; but as Alexander Pope impeccably said: "To err is human; to forgive, divine."
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