单词 | fallibility |
释义 | fallibilityn. The state or fact of being fallible; liability to error; (occasionally) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > liability to err fallibility1608 slipperiness1612 fallacy1651 errableness1654 errability?1706 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] misnimming?c1225 errora1340 defaulta1387 balkc1430 fault1523 jeofail1546 errat1548 trip1548 naught1557 missa1568 missinga1568 slide1570 snappera1572 amiss1576 mistaking1579 misprize1590 mistake1600 berry-block1603 solecism1603 fallibility1608 stumblea1612 blota1657 slur1662 incorrectnessa1771 bumble1823 skew1869 (to make) a false step1875 slip-up1909 ricket1958 bad1981 1608 J. White Way to True Church 293 For so Gods spirit should manifestly deceiue vs, and..in giuing testimony, be subiect to the same fallibilitie that ours is. 1634 E. Knott in W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants iv. §14 Nothing of the Churches Visibility or Invisibility, Fallibility or Infallibility. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. i. 131 Those Evidences of Fact..have or may have their several allays and fallibilities. 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. ix. 409 Tho' there be a great deal of Fallibility in the Testimony of Men. 1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. xiv. 355 The Fallibility, which sometimes attends this method of distinguishing. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 208 Taking the fallibility of judges and lawyers into his heart,..can any man declare..upon his oath, that Peytel was guilty? 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty i. 18 The fallibility of what is called the moral sense. 1904 Christian Reg. (Boston) 2 June 595/2 They were only men with their share of fallibilities. 1982 Times 5 July 11/6 Man's..striving constantly to impose order on chaos..is undermined by..human foible and fallibility. 2011 G. Gray Skyjack (2012) 11 In one impulsive action, the lone skyjacker was able to show the fallibility of the costly flying machines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1608 |
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