单词 | erring |
释义 | erringn. The action of err v.; †an instance of the same, a fault. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > action of erring mistakinga1400 forvayingc1430 faultingc1450 erring1483 tripping1594 stumble1641 1483 Cath. Angl. 117 An Errynge, erratus, error. 1649 H. Lawrence Some Considerations Use Holy Script. 38 Two sorts of errings. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 175 Yet have they their errings as well as others. 1699 J. Pomfret Love Triumphant There's no erring twice in Love and War. 1734 W. Harte To Prince of Orange 8 Isis, whose erring on the modest Side..Th'unkind, and ignorant have mistook for Pride. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2019). erringadj. a. That errs in senses of the verb: †wandering, roaming (obsolete); deviating from the right or intended course, missing the mark; that is in error, or commits errors in opinion or conduct. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] erringa1340 overseena1393 willa1400 out of one's book (also books)1549 straying1553 faulting1566 deceived1569 seek1569 tripping1577 amiss1582 mistaking1582 naught1597 errant1609 solecistical1654 solecismical1656 wrong1695 solecistic1865 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xiii. 1 Delite of synn egges errand men to ween God noght to be. c1400 Lay Folks Mass-bk. App. v. 394 As a Errynge pylgrym in the seruyse of the myghty and dredful god of loue, how many perylous passages and wayes that I ha passyd by. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 135 The strauagant and erring spirite hies To his confines. 1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land Pref. 14 This Ship was intercepted by an English erring Captaine. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 319 Danger..may arise to Religion, by the Subjects tolerating of an..Erring Prince, etc. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 413 And all those erring Paths describ'd so well, That Theseus conquer'd, and the Monster fell. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 24 His sounding Spear, Which..spent in empty Air its erring Force. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. ii. 54 Still to erring, wilful man, the way to life is strait. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 166 The erring act which is done without knowledge is done in ignorance. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy planetc1300 erratic starc1374 erring starc1449 seven starsc1530 straying star1585 wanderer1615 erratical1647 erratic1715 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 480 Erring sterris. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. iii. iii. xv So doth the Earth one of the erring Seven Wheel round the fixèd sunne. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 232 Fix'd, and erring Stars, dispose their Influence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1483adj.a1340 |
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