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errancy

[er-uhn-see, ur-] / ˈɛr ən si, ˈɜr- /
NOUN
fallibility
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Traversing Central and Eastern Europe, New York, California, the Southwestern U. S., Buenos Aires, and Haiti, Reines resembles a cosmic outlaw, a modern-day wandering Jew, whose errancy and alienation disrupts illusions of order.

From The New Yorker Oct. 23, 2019

I have not taken a brief to prove the errancy of Scripture.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

Even if he should come to love her less passionately than at the beginning, he was the loyal sort of American, who would not let that fact furnish him with excuse for errancy.

From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

But those who knew Mr. Woods personally will readily acquit him of the charge of any such ethnological errancy.

From The Colored Inventor A Record of Fifty Years by Henry E. Baker

Such errancy betrays a violent and egotistical personality, increases one's sense of corporeality, and begets a fear of the senses and a perpetually egotistical sensibility.

From Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy

Like Milne’s books, the movie is partly an initiation into the delightful errancies of language, which fashions sense and nonsense out of the same materials.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2011

Larry in these injured moods felt vague possibilities of wickedness within him,—justified errancies….

From Together by Robert Herrick




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