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Webster 1913 Edition
Infallible
In-fal′li-ble
,Adj.
[Pref.
in-
not + fallible
: cf. F. infallible
.] 1.
Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
Dryden.
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.
(R. C. Ch.)
Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See
Papal infallibility
, under Infallibility
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See also: infal·lible
English
Adjective
infallible (comparative more infallible, superlative most infallible)
- Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
- He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.
- certain, sure.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein:
- I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
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Translations
without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy
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