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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Err \Err\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Erred}; p. pr & vb n. {Erring}
(?; 277, 85).] [F. errer, L. errare akin to G. irren OHG.
irran, v. t., irr?n, v. i., OS irrien Sw irra, Dan. irre,
Goth, a['i]rzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.]
1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic] ``Why wilt thou
err from me?'' --Keble.
What seemeth to you if there were to a man an
hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. --Wyclif
(Matt. xviii.
12).
2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed
at ``My jealous aim might err.'' --Shak.
3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake
in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
The man may err in his judgment of circumstances.
--Tillotson.
4. To deviate morally from the right way to go astray, in a
figurative sense to do wrong to sin.
Do they not err that devise evil? --Prov. xiv.
22.
5. To offend, as by erring.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
erring
adj : capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone" [syn:
{errant}, {error-prone}]
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