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Infallibility


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
  • (2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
  • (3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
  • (4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
  • (5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
  • (6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
  • (7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
  • (8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
  • (9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
  • (10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
  • (11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
  • (12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
  • (13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
  • (14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
  • (15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
  • (16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
  • (17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
  • (18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
  • (19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
  • (20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.

Infallible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
  • (a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.
  • (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
  • (2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
  • (3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
  • (4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
  • (5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
  • (6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
  • (7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
  • (8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
  • (9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
  • (10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
  • (11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
  • (12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
  • (13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
  • (14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
  • (15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
  • (16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
  • (17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
  • (18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
  • (19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
  • (20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.