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单词 erring
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erringn.

/ˈəːrɪŋ/
Etymology: < err v. + -ing suffix1.
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.

/ˈəːrɪŋ/
Etymology: < err v. + -ing suffix2.
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.
b. erring star n. Obsolete = planet.
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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).
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