Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With freedom from error; infallibly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With security from error; infallibly; unerringly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Free from error; infallibly; unerringly.

Etymologies

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inerrable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The rights of women and the rights of wives are often discussed, but the rights of mothers is a term expressing a principle which is not to be called new, only because in the bee-hive, for instance, we see it expressed and inerrably served.

    Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

  • ` ` I cannot picture her; but I shall know her, know her inerrably as these your wood children find out each other untaught, as the butterfly that has never seen his kindred knows his painted mate, passing on the wing all others by.

    The Quest of the Golden Girl 1896

  • "I cannot picture her; but I shall know her, know her inerrably as these your wood children find out each other untaught, as the butterfly that has never seen his kindred knows his painted mate, passing on the wing all others by.

    Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance Richard Le Gallienne 1906

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