▪ I. errable, a. arch. rare.
(ˈɛrəb(ə)l)
[f. err v. + -able.]
Fallible, liable to err.
| 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing 217 Experience teaching that men..are errable. 1705 Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 219 The punishment of Schismaticks, that are Deserters from an errable Church, is unaccountable nonsense. 1715 M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 8 Very errable and uninspir'd Penman. a 1718 Penn Tracts, Wks. (1726) I. 604 Man is Errable. 1741 Berkeley Let. 7 June Wks. 1871 IV. 272 We hold all mankind to be peccable and errable, even the Pope himself. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopr. ii. ii. 116 Errable, liable to mistake. |
Hence † ˈerrableness, Obs., liability to error.
| 1653 W. Mountague Devout Ess. iv. §4 Considering the errableness of our judgments, when extended to foreign and remote subjects. 1667 Decay Chr. Piety xvii. (1683) 355 The errableness of our nature. 1775 in Ash. 1828 in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |
▪ II. errable, -bull
obs. forms of earable.