Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of erring or an instance of it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of erring; liability to err.
- noun The condition of erring; liability to err.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wandering; state of being in error.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being in
error ;fallibility - noun holding the view that the
Pope is notinfallible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility
- noun fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err
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Examples
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If it has to be precisely a claim to "errancy" in so many words, that might be harder.
Classic Liberal? James F. McGrath 2009
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It is true that signs must be qualified by matter - we must recognize their material autonomy (and, hence, their "errancy") - but, I'm claiming, it is perhaps to recognize the semiological character of matter itself.
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It is true that signs must be qualified by matter - we must recognize their material autonomy (and, hence, their "errancy") - but, I'm claiming, it is perhaps to recognize the semiological character of matter itself.
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Maybe my roots are just too conservative but I'm just uncomfortable with the language of 'errancy' when it comes to Scripture.
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If you serve long enough, errors are inevitable, but leaders should be judged not for their errancy, but how they handle mistakes when they do come up.
Greg Lukianoff: Censoring Joss Whedon's Firefly and the Chancellor Who Cried Wolf Greg Lukianoff 2011
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Whether "fiscal errancy" includes tax incentives like the IBC is yet to be made clear, but even the policy world's language of crisis resolution tips discussion toward the punitive and away from the genuinely recuperative.
Portugal's Unrepentant Debtor Raymond Zhong 2011
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If the inerrancy position is fraught with danger and can easily become ludicrous in practice, is not the errancy hermeneutic just if not more fraught with danger and ludicrous in practice?
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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The revelation of sexual errancy was juicier than flour hoarding.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The revelation of sexual errancy was juicier than flour hoarding.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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At this point I don't agree with the idea of biblical errancy, though my own view of inerrancy probably isn't precisely what you find in the formal statements affirming this view.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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