erroneouslyadv.
/ɛˈrəʊnɪəsli/ In an erroneous manner:† a. In an erratic or wandering manner.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner
wilsomelyc1420
erroneously1528
vagrantly1547
gaddingly1552
wanderingly1552
roamingly1621
rovingly1664
excursively1791
ramblingly1855
1528 Roy Satire (1845) 111 We wander in darcknes With out light erroniously.
b. In a misguided manner, under the influence of error.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adverb]
adwolec1275
amissc1275
mislichec1275
out of the waya1450
erroneously1512
perperously1657
mistakenly1660
by (rarely from, in a) mistake1678
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adverb] > under influence of error
erroneously1512
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble Erronyously defendyng and maynteynyng his seid obstynate opynyons.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 2 They who erroneously conceive one God too little, will find two too many.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vii. 129 I..conceived it (perhaps erroneously) rather to be rigorous than gentle.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 330 They erroneously imagined that there was an exact analogy between, etc.
c. Otherwise than is the fact; incorrectly.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adverb]
wrongc1175
miss?c1225
untruea1350
untrulyc1380
falselya1400
wilsomelyc1420
awrong1430
unpurelyc1460
fallibly1552
erroneously1578
sinistrously1581
wrongously1597
false1598
unproperly1604
incorrectly1611
fallaciously1612
mistakingly1652
foul1683
wrongfully1743
wrongly1755
erringly1815
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adverb]
ungroundablyc1449
ungroundedly?1550
erroneously1578
unsoundly1593
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xliv. 203 This flowre is called Affodillus..but very erroniously.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xviii. 153 If vision..receive its objects erroneously, [it is called] Hallucination. View more context for this quotation
1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 17 It is computed, but erroneously, mid-way between Durham and Newcastle.
1760 S. Johnson Idler 15 Mar. 81 Which produce very mischievous Mistakes when they are erroneously interpreted.
1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 382/2 Hitherto been set down most erroneously in all maps.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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