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▪ I. errable, a. arch. rare.|ˈɛrəb(ə)l|
[f. err v. + -able.]
Fallible, liable to err.
1665J. Sergeant Sure-footing 217 Experience teaching that men..are errable. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 219 The punishment of Schismaticks, that are Deserters from an errable Church, is unaccountable nonsense. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 8 Very errable and uninspir'd Penman. a1718Penn Tracts, Wks. (1726) I. 604 Man is Errable. 1741Berkeley Let. 7 June Wks. 1871 IV. 272 We hold all mankind to be peccable and errable, even the Pope himself. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. ii. ii. 116 Errable, liable to mistake.
Hence † ˈerrableness, Obs., liability to error.
1653W. Mountague Devout Ess. iv. §4 Considering the errableness of our judgments, when extended to foreign and remote subjects. 1667Decay Chr. Piety xvii. (1683) 355 The errableness of our nature. 1775in Ash. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
▪ II. errable, -bull
obs. forms of earable. |