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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erroneous \Er*ro"ne*ous\, a. [L. erroneus, fr errare to err.
See {Err}.]
1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; --
hence irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Erroneous
circulation.'' --Arbuthnot.
Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise
would have disturbed the vision. --Sir I.
Newman.
2. Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.]
An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we
ought to omit. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice;
incorrect; false; mistaken; as an erroneous doctrine;
erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc --
{Er*ro"ne*ous*ly}, adv -- {Er*ro"ne*ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
erroneously
adv : in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it" [syn: {mistakenly}]
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