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Err v. i. (past & past part. erred; pres. part. erring)

To wander; to roam; to stray. (Archaic) "Why wilt thou err from me?" "What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred."

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err."

To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken. "The man may err in his judgment of circumstances."

To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin. "Do they not err that devise evil?"

To offend, as by erring.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Err" Quotes from Famous Books

... "O-mi-to-fu!" she exclaimed. "You are indeed my very good cousin! But you've also (to Pao-y) come across your match. And this makes it clear that requital and retribution never fail or err." ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... of the early history of the Chora, there may be, as Schmitt[512] thinks, many inaccuracies. It was easy, even for a member of the House who aspired to authorship, to confuse persons, to err in the matter of dates, and to overlook the changes which the buildings with which he was familiar had undergone before his day. But surely the biographer of S. Theodore can be trusted where his statements ...

— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen

... about the incident at that time when I lived in a constant turmoil of episodes even stranger, but by one of those accidents which sometimes seem to be directed by the hand of an impish fate, I was to learn who or what my visitor was. When I say I was to learn what she was, perhaps I err; more correctly I was to learn what she was not, ...

— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer

... bad and British generalship made many mistakes, some of them, no doubt, unavoidable, because it is human to err, and some of them due to sheer, simple, ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... 9. (Tacitus wrote "Haud semper," etc.) "An opinion not founded upon any suggestions of his own, but upon his being thought equal to the station. Common fame does not always err, sometimes it even directs a ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift

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