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Infallibility

Infallibility \In*fal`li*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. infaillibilit['e].] 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, 1870.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infallibility

1610s, from Medieval Latin infallibilitas, from infallibilis (see infallible).

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infallibility

n. The property of being infallible; the ability to never make a mistake.

WordNet
infallibility

n. the quality of never making an error [ant: fallibility]

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Infallibility

Infallibility is a term with a variety of meanings related to knowing truth with certainty.

Usage examples of "infallibility".

Next to the merit of infallibility which you appear to possess, I rank that of candidly acknowledging a fault.

The worthy man was the most honest of Dutch millionaires, but he might easily make a large hole in his fortune, if he did not absolutely ruin himself, by putting an implicit trust in my infallibility.

And, in order to understand every thing from the beginning, you must look through microscopes at the movements of amoebae, and cells in worms, or, with still greater composure, believe in every thing that men with a diploma of infallibility shall say to you about them.

As a rule, the claim of infallibility is taken as a proof that the man who makes it is not only fallible, but something worse.

In reality such proceedings miss the end for which they are undertaken, and the Pope, in spite of his infallibility, will not prevent his persecutions from giving Freemasonry an importance which it would perhaps have never obtained if it had been left alone.

This prince must have felt the misery of repenting everything he had done and of seeing the impossibility of undoing it, partly because it was irreparable, partly because if he had undone through reason what he had done through senselessness, he would have thought himself dishonoured, for he must have clung to the last to the belief of the infallibility attached to his high birth, in spite of the state of languor of his soul which ought to have proved to him the weakness and the fallibility of his nature.

Her worthy father, who believed entirely in the infallibility of our oracles, had the curiosity to put the same question to both of us, to see if we should agree in the answer.

The entire justice system depended on the infallibility of the Veritas drug.

My mind was so much weakened, or rather softened about this time, that my faith began a little to give way, and I doubted most presumptuously of the least tangible of all Christian tenets, namely, of the infallibility of the elect.

Such is the infallibility lodged in the Catholic Church, viewed in the concrete, as clothed and surrounded by the appendages of its high sovereignty: it is, to repeat what I said above, a supereminent prodigious power sent upon earth to encounter and master a giant evil.

We are never allowed to know him well enough to be able to give him, with complete confidence, the stature of an authentic Sartrian hero, though he gains immeasurably in our eyes from the manner of his death, from the way in which he is sacrificed to a cause that uses men cynically and pretends to infallibility.

Even when I was in Russia it was not allowable to doubt the infallibility of a ukase, and to do so was, equivalent to high treason.

I would give them a grand proof of the infallibility of my oracle: how many miracles are done in the same way!

The first steps were complete in planting the seeds of doubt about the infallibility of the Revenants' revealed religion.

The high-water mark in recent history is the 1864 Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX, the pope who also convened the Vatican Council at which the doctrine of papal infallibility was, at his insistence, first proclaimed.