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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inerrant

1650s, in reference to "fixed" stars (as opposed to "wandering" planets), from Latin inerrantem (nominative inerrans) "not wandering," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + errans, present participle of errare "to err" (see err).

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inerrant

a. Of or pertaining to inerrancy. Without error, particularly used in reference to the Bible.

WordNet
inerrant

adj. not liable to error; "the Church was...theoretically inerrant and omnicompetent"-G.G.Coulton; "lack an inerrant literary sense"; "an unerring marksman" [syn: inerrable, unerring]

Usage examples of "inerrant".

If my religion teaches that it is the inalterable and inerrant word of God that the Universe is a few thousand years old, then scientists are being offensive and impious, as well as mistaken, when they claim it's a few billion.

As soon as we admit that there are scriptural mistakes (or concessions to the ignorance of the times), then how can the Bible be an inerrant guide to ethics and morals?

He yearns for inerrant doctrine, release from the exercise of judgment, and an obligation to believe but not to question.

We might remember the sinful things we have done, and the devil might accuse us and try to intimidate us, but we can be as sure as God's inerrant Word that we are no longer condemned.

After all, judging by their performance with the storm, the wizards of Praunce and its empire were not exactly flawlessly competent and inerrant, and Turner did seem to know what he was doing.

Probably there was some inerrant logic behind the placement of every brick.