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US
/ˌɪnˌfæɫɪˈbɪɫɪti/
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[ UK /ɪnfˌælɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɪnfˌælɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of never making an error
How To Use infallibility In A Sentence
- I can't claim infallibility for this method.
- These two articles sound like the New Year's prediction of a psychic who makes 1,000 predictions and uses the random accuracy of one of them to claim proof of their infallibility.
- You don't,for example,have papal infallibility declared as a doctrine until the early twentieth century.
- These factors create a background of quiet, burning anger, which in terrorism finds an effective outlet with the resolute conviction of one's infallibility.
- It should however, be borne in mind that the council without the pope has no guarantee of infallibility, therefore the conciliar and the papal infallibilities are not two separate and addible units, but one unit with single or double excellence. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- The promulgation of the infallibility of the Pontiff and the universality of his episcopate reinforced this ultramontane dogma at the First Vatican Council.
- She doesn't feel that she has to restore his claim of infallibility for him to garner that respect.
- Merrington had received the information with the imperviable dogmatism of the official mind, strong in the belief in its own infallibility, resentful of advice or suggestion as an attempt to weaken its dignity. The Hand in the Dark
- Papal infallibility is one of the main Protestant objections to Catholicism — yet, oddly enough, it was one of the things that gave Catholicism an unlikely avant-garde cachet from around the time of Pius IX's proclamation to, say, World War II. Archive 2007-12-01
- Mormons don't use the term "infallibility" to refer to their leaders and readily acknowledge that they are imperfect men. Mormon president can do no wrong to religion's members