单词 | infallible |
释义 | in·fallible 1. < infallible marksman > < infallible ear for pitch in music > < infallible memory > 2. < infallible remedy > < his accent is an almost infallible index of his family background and education — Richard Joseph > < infallible scheme for making money > 3. Synonyms: < no mathematician is infallible; he may make mistakes — A.S.Eddington > < believed in an infallible Bible — W.W.Sweet > inerrable and inerrant are erudite synonyms for infallible sometimes used in its stead to escape connotations arising from the discussion of papal infallibility; the latter may imply that whatever is described has not so far erred < the Church was ubiquitous, omniscient, theoretically inerrant and omnicompetent — G.G.Coulton > < at the moment we lack, in all English-speaking countries, the inerrant literary sense which gave us the Prayer Book Collects, often quite as beautiful in translation as in the original Latin — W.L.Sperry > unerring may imply freedom from error coupled with sureness, reliability, and exactness < an unerring marksman > < a man's language is an unerring index of his nature — Laurence Binyon > < the unerring scent of the hounds in pursuit — George Meredith > |
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