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Definition of Infallible

1. Adjective. Incapable of failure or error. "No doctor is infallible"

Definition of Infallible

1. a. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.

Definition of Infallible

1. Adjective. Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy. ¹

2. Adjective. certain, sure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infallible

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Infallible

1. 1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. 2. Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. "To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs." (Acts i. 3) 3. Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility. Origin: Pref. In- not + fallible: cf. F. Infallible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infallible

Literary usage of Infallible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is consoling, no doubt, to cling to the abstract doctrine of an infallible authority, but if one adopts a theory which represents that authority as ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"THE CHAPTER OF THE infallible IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. The infallible, what is the infallible? and what should make thee know what ..."

3. The Christian Examiner (1850)
"If an infallible Church be necessary in order to teach us certainly what are the truths of Christianity, it is even more necessary that we have an ..."

4. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Education and by Thomas Clarkson (1806)
"V. This spirit was not only given to man as a teacher, but ax a primary and infallible guide—Hence the Scriptures are a subordinate or secondary guide— ..."

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