inerrable
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin inerrabilis. Compare Portuguese inerrável. See in- (“not”) + err + -able.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
inerrable (comparative more inerrable, superlative most inerrable)
- Incapable of error; infallible, unerring.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- We have conviction from reason, or decisions from the inerrable and requisite conditions of sense.
- 1890, William Ewart Gladstone, The impregnable rock of Holy Scripture:
- Not that their statements are inerrable; but they constitute the best working material in our possession
Translations edit
Incapable of error
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References edit
“inerrable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.