infallibilityn.
/ɪnfalɪˈbɪlɪti/ 1.
a. The quality or fact of being infallible or exempt from liability to err.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > [noun] > infallibility
unbeguilefulnessc1456
infalliblenessa1586
infallibility1611
inerrableness1620
inerrability1627
unerrability1628
unerrableness1646
unerrancy1646
undeceivableness1685
inerrancy1865
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] > infallibility of
infallibility1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Infallibilité, infallibilitie, or infalliblenesse; certainetie, assurance.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 8 Men..priuiledged with the priuiledge of infallibilitie.
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 110 The Pope sitting in his Chaire,..may yet erre for all his infallibility so much and so oft bragged of.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. i. §2 [The evidences] will likewise prove the undoubted certainty and infallibility of those writings.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. xii. 187 A striking instance of the infallibility of my judgement.
1870 Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 443 Roman Catholics in this country acquired all their civil rights on the strength of their reiterated declarations that Papal infallibility was no doctrine of their church.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xi. 301 That which we call infallibility is nothing but this: the Church cannot err from the path of revealed truth.
b. His Infallibility, a title given to the Pope; also, a mock title.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 1 121 The day before the Pope expired, the startling announcement came forth ‘His Infallibility is delirious’.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 1/1 An ex cathedrâ utterance from his Infallibility of Midlothian.
c. An infallible person. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > [noun] > infallibility > infallible person or thing
infallible1816
infallibility1886
1886 F. H. Doyle Reminisc. 49 Youthful infallibilities of the normal Arnoldian type.
2. The quality of being unfailing or not liable to fail; unfailing certainty.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > absolute certainty > [noun]
irrefragability1609
unanswerableness1627
infallibilitya1631
uncontrollableness1634
unquestionableness1640
undeniableness1654
irrefragableness1682
incontestableness1727
indisputableness1727
indubitableness1727
inexpugnableness1727
unanswerability1750
incontrovertibility1775
unquestionability1815
impugnability1837
incontrovertibleness1837
incontestability1862
inexpugnability1864
irrefutability1864
indisputability1880
doubtlessness1895
indubitability1933
inescapability1945
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) III. 362 Thy light shall grow up, from a faire hope, to a modest assurance and infallibility, that that light shall never go out.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 67 Puffd up with such a certitude and infallibilitie of hopes and presumptions, that..there were Bonefires alreadie made.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 216 The prestige of a gun with a savage is in his notion of its infallibility.
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