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Erring   /ˈɛrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Err  v. i.  (past & past part. erred; pres. part. erring)  
1.
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."
2.
To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err."
3.
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."
4.
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?"
5.
To offend, as by erring.



adjective
erring  adj.  Capable of making an error.
Synonyms: errant, error-prone.






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"Erring" Quotes from Famous Books



... world believed you dead. I cannot go to him, and comfort, and provide for him now; but, in the name of God, and your oath, and if not for your own sake, at least for his and for mine, I ask you once more, Evelyn Carlyle, will you hasten to your erring but unhappy husband?" ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... same; and the erring ones, predestined to sin by their own unrestrained passions, wait only for the overmastering circumstances to yield and fall. When any of these solemn warnings are held up to the yet callow sinner, what does he propose to do? To stop and repent? No,—to be a little ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various

... not for the life of me determine. What the wine had begun, the bright eyes completed; and amidst the witchcraft of silky tresses and sweet looks, I lost all my reflection, till the impression of an impending difficulty remained fixed in my mind, and I tortured my poor, weak, and erring intellect to detect it. At last, and by a mere chance, my eyes fell upon Sparks; and by what mechanism I contrived it, I know not, but I immediately saddled him with the whole of my annoyances, and attributed to him and to his fault ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... fasting and sincere prayer, succeeded in cleansing my heart from every impure desire—I can now view you with the holy feelings—the passionless regard, of a father for his daughter. My dear child, forget not your promise to refrain from exposing an erring fellow mortal; and may ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson

... strong grasp upon his arm, Max would have stepped off the rock and gone headlong, but he hastily found a place for his erring foot, and stood still while a slight slit was made in the back of his tweed jacket, and the salmon fly which had hooked ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn


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