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adjective

Infallible adj.

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.

Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. "To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs."

(R. C. Ch.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.

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... Handbook." He has gathered together, indeed, a store of information, and must, to make his single volume, have gutted many hundreds of guide-books. How the Continental ciceroni must hate him, whoever he is! Every English party I saw had this infallible red book in their hands, and gained a vast deal of historical and general information from it. Thus I heard, in confidence, many remarkable anecdotes of Charles V., the Duke of Alva, Count Egmont, all of which I had before perceived, ...

— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray

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— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

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