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errancy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun errancy has 2 senses
- errancy(n = noun.attribute) Array - (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility; "he denies the errancy of the Catholic Church" is a kind of unacceptability, unacceptableness
- errancy(n = noun.attribute) Array - fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err; Array is a kind of fallibility
Derived form adjective errant1
Derived forms verb err1, adjective errant1
Antonym: inerrancy
CIDE DICTIONARY
errancy, n. [L. errantia.].
A wandering; state of being in error. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
errancy
aberrancy, aberration, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, errability, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, fallacy, fallibility, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, liability to error, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, peccancy, perversion, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrongness
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