Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of erring or an instance of it.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition of erring; liability to err.
- n. The condition of erring; liability to err.
Wiktionary
- n. the state of being in error; fallibility
- n. holding the view that the Pope is not infallible
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A wandering; state of being in error.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility
- n. fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err
Examples
“If it has to be precisely a claim to "errancy" in so many words, that might be harder.”
“It is true that signs must be qualified by matter - we must recognize their material autonomy (and, hence, their "errancy") - but, I'm claiming, it is perhaps to recognize the semiological character of matter itself.”
“Maybe my roots are just too conservative but I'm just uncomfortable with the language of 'errancy' when it comes to Scripture.”
“If you serve long enough, errors are inevitable, but leaders should be judged not for their errancy, but how they handle mistakes when they do come up.”
“Whether "fiscal errancy" includes tax incentives like the IBC is yet to be made clear, but even the policy world's language of crisis resolution tips discussion toward the punitive and away from the genuinely recuperative.”
“At this point I don't agree with the idea of biblical errancy, though my own view of inerrancy probably isn't precisely what you find in the formal statements affirming this view.”
“If the inerrancy position is fraught with danger and can easily become ludicrous in practice, is not the errancy hermeneutic just if not more fraught with danger and ludicrous in practice?”
“The revelation of sexual errancy was juicier than flour hoarding.”
“The powers of the universe are invoked to help cure the being prayed for—or to correct some sort of errancy, inaccuracy, or divergence from the path and place of awareness; a sickness of spirit or mind, so to speak.”
Simon & Schuster: God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
“You'll notice Dr McGrath, when faced with the obvious meaning of a text that makes him uncomfortable, implicitly or explicitly attributes error/errancy to it.”
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