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2 definitions found 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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