Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Infallibility; exemption from liability to failure or error.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility.
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- noun The quality of being
infallible .
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Examples
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Nearly all the states still imposed religious tests upon civil office-holders, from simply declaring a general belief in the infallibleness of the Bible to accepting the doctrine of the Trinity.
The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871
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But I need not now urge this part of the proof on you, because you are already, I believe, sufficiently conscious of the truth in this matter, and also I have already said enough of it in my writings; whereas I have not at all said enough of the infallibleness of fine technical work as a proof of every other good power.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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But I need not now urge this part of the proof on you, because you are already, I believe, sufficiently conscious of the truth in this matter, and also I have already said enough of it in my writings; whereas I have not at all said enough of the infallibleness of fine technical work as a proof of every other good power.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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