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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: infallibility n : the quality of never making an error [ant: {fallibility}]
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