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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as fallibility.

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  • noun The quality of being fallible

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Examples

  • Look where we may, we shall discern in all classes ground for condemnation; and whoever would do good ought to speak the truth of all, only remembering that he is to speak with sympathy, and with a consciousness of his own fallibleness and infirmity.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • Look where we may, we shall discern in all classes ground for condemnation; and whoever would do good ought to speak the truth of all, only remembering that he is to speak with sympathy, and with a consciousness of his own fallibleness and infirmity.

    On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes: Lecture I 1909

  • We identify and come to care for all these characters, despite - in fact, because of - their hypocrisy and fallibleness.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • We identify and come to care for all these characters, despite - in fact, because of - their hypocrisy and fallibleness.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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