erroneousness

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His life in his own family showed the erroneousness of the assertion that a thorough devotion to learning is inconsistent with the claims of family affection.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

Lieutenant Cook hath fully ascertained the erroneousness of this opinion.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew

Understanding well enough that all this is quite natural and excusable in a sea-faring man, I succeed in checking a rising smile, and gently, but firmly, convince the officer of the erroneousness of this conclusion.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

It was therefore with renewed curiosity that I engaged him on this large subject—the universal erroneousness of thinking up to the period when Lentulus began that process.

From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot, George

Wakefield conjectures that Pope altered the line from having learnt the erroneousness of the vulgar belief that the sting of the serpent is in its tail.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander