erroneousness

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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

In the "Fauna Peruana" I have explained the erroneousness of this opinion, and described the specific differences existing between the two animals.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

The erroneousness of the assertion that the volcanoes of the Island of Java do not emit streams of real lava.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

But in 1884 the erroneousness of the belief had not been made clear by recent experience.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

The recent excavations on the 478 Acropolis have proved the erroneousness of the view, strongly maintained by Brunn, that the mass of the black-figured vases were of a late and imitative fabric.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various