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单词 infallible
释义 in·fallible
\(ˈ)in, ən+\ adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- in- (I) + Late Latin fallibilis fallible — more at fallible
1. : not fallible : incapable of error : unerring
 < infallible marksman >
 < infallible ear for pitch in music >
 < infallible memory >
2. : not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint : sure, certain, indubitable
 < infallible remedy >
 < his accent is an almost infallible index of his family background and education — Richard Joseph >
 < infallible scheme for making money >
3. : incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals
Synonyms:
 inerrable, inerrant, unerring: infallible describes that which is exempt from possibility of error or mistake or that which has been errorless
  < 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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