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infallibility

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INFALLIBILITY, INFALLIBLENESS

n.[from infallible. ] The quality of being incapable of error or mistake; entire exemption from liability to error; inerrability. No human being can justly lay claim to infallibility. This is an attribute of God only.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INFALLIBILITY

In *fal `li *bil "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. infaillibilité. ]

Defn: The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson.Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch. ), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 187 .

New American Oxford Dictionary

infallibility

in fal li bil i ty |inˌfaləˈbilitē ˈˌɪnˌfæləˈbɪlədi | ▶noun the quality of being infallible; the inability to be wrong: his judgment became impaired by faith in his own infallibility. • (also papal infallibility ) (in the Roman Catholic Church ) the doctrine that in specified circumstances the pope is incapable of error in pronouncing dogma. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete French infallibilité or medieval Latin infallibilitas (based on Latin fallere ‘deceive ’).

Oxford Dictionary

infallibility

in |fal ¦li |bil ¦ity |ɪnˌfalɪˈbɪlɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality of being infallible; the inability to be wrong: his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility. • (also papal infallibility ) (in the Roman Catholic Church ) the doctrine that in specified circumstances the Pope is incapable of error in pronouncing dogma. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete French infallibilité or medieval Latin infallibilitas (based on Latin fallere ‘deceive ’).