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Err v. i. (past & past part. erred; pres. part. erring)

To wander; to roam; to stray. (Archaic) "Why wilt thou err from me?" "What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred."

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err."

To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken. "The man may err in his judgment of circumstances."

To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin. "Do they not err that devise evil?"

To offend, as by erring.

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... to us, in all this, is our beloved Lord! Surely, if He, "God only wise"—the Self-existent One, to whom "all power was committed;"—the Sinless One, never liable to err, on whom "the Spirit was poured without measure"—if He manifested such habitual dependence on His heavenly Father, how earnestly ought we, weak, erring, fallible creatures, to seek to live every ...

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... my mother; and when she prohibits an indifferent thing, I, as a good child, am bound to obey her, particularly when I have the promise of Christ that she can never err—that 'the gates of hell can never prevail against her.' We have an instance in this very county," said Paul, now warming into the argument, "of the effects of a prohibitory law. A few years ago it was no harm ...

— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley

... Legalistic quibbles have no place in the answer to a complaint. The customer is rightly or wrongly dissatisfied; business is built only on satisfied customers. Therefore the question is not to prove who is right but to satisfy the customer. This doctrine has its limitations, but it is safer to err in the way of doing too much than in ...

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... infallibility. Doubtless the Jews of Palestine distinguished the canonical from the apocryphal or deutero-canonical books on grounds satisfactory to themselves; but their judgment was not infallible. A senate of Rabbis under the old dispensation might err, as easily as a synod of priests under the new. Though they may have been generally correct, it must not be assumed that they were always so. Their discernment may be commended without being magnified. The general feeling of leaning upon the past was ...

— The Canon of the Bible • Samuel Davidson

... between the first and the third. Of a given area allotted to the hot rooms, from one-half to two-thirds may be devoted to the tepidarium, and from one-third to one-half to the super-heated rooms, always remembering that it is well to err on the side of providing a large and roomy tepidarium. Of the space allowed for the smaller rooms, one-quarter to one-third may be given to the hottest, and the remaining space to the ...

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