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

Thus, as long as artificial tests of spirituality are allowed to exist, their erroneousness is not easily exposed by the mere wear and tear of life.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William

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

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

I will only point out the erroneousness of the popular view, that Greek portraits were conventional and uninteresting; and that it was the Romans who introduced individuality into portraiture.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.