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▪ I. unˈerring, vbl. n.
(un-1 13.)
1709Strype Ann. Ref. 247 He was in Judgment for the unerring of General Councils.
▪ II. unˈerring, ppl. a.
[un-1 10 and 5 b.]
1. Making no error or mistake; not going or leading astray in judgement or opinion.
c1660South Serm. (1697) I. 254 They believed his Miracles upon the Credit of constant unerring Tradition. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 565 With sure Foresight, and with unerring Doom, He sees what is, and was, and is to come. 1732Challoner (title), The Unerring Authority of the Catholic Church in matters of Faith. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 324, I know this vision sent From Heaven, and feel of its unerring truth. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 565 The unerring principles of political economy. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 32 The unerring guides of ourselves and of those who were under us.
absol.1813Coleridge Remorse iii. ii. 36, I breath'd to the Unerring Permitted prayers.
2. Corresponding with the utmost exactness or closeness to some standard or aim.
1665Glanvill Def. Van. Dogm. 39 The unerring exactness we find in Animal formations. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 166 Therefore I thought fit to lay down such Unerring Rules, as [etc.]. 1710Prior Examiner 7 Sept., The Works of learned Men are weighed here by the unerring Ballance of Party. 1775Tyrwhitt Chaucer's Cant. T. IV. 91 An operation, which every Ballad-monger in our days..is known to perform with the most unerring exactness. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiv, The Son of the Mist again led the way, with an unerring precision. 1861Buckle Civiliz. (1873) II. viii. 434 We may trace with unerring certainty the steps [etc.].
3. Not going astray from the intended mark; certain, sure:
a. Of missiles or other weapons.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xii. (1626) 240 With that, th' vnerring dart..[he] flung. 1712Spect. No. 527 ⁋3 Procris..made her Husband..a Present of an unerring Javelin. c1743Francis tr. Hor., Sec. Poem 12 Goddess, whose unerring dart Stops the lynx, or flying hart.
b. Of aim, agents or agencies, etc.
1697Dryden æneis xii. 712 One dart he drew, And with unerring aim, and utmost vigour, threw. c1709Prior 2nd Hymn Callimachus 127 Thy unerring Hand elanc'd Another, and another Dart. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes v. v. 9 By the unerring wrath of Jove, Unerring shall his vengeance prove. 1801Scott Glenfinlas ii, How matchless was thy broad claymore, How deadly thine unerring bow! 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 46 He was considered an unerring shot. 1855Orr's Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat. 112 Occasionally striking with unerring aim at its prey. |