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Unerring definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNER'RING, a.
1. Committing no mistake; incapable of error; as, the unerring wisdom of God.
2. Incapable of failure; certain. He takes unerring aim.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not liable to error; "the Church was...theoretically inerrant and omnicompetent"-G.G.Coulton; "lack an inerrant literary sense"; "an unerring marksman" [syn: inerrable, inerrant, unerring]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1621 committing no error ; faultless, unfailing <unerring accuracy> • unerringly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not erring, failing, or missing the mark; true, certain. Derivatives: unerringly adv. unerringness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unerring Un*err"ing, a. Committing no mistake; incapable or error or failure certain; sure; unfailing; as, the unerring wisdom of God. Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone's judgment or ability as unerring, you mean that they are always correct and never mistaken. She has an unerring instinct for people's weak spots. = infallible ADJ: usu ADJ n • unerringly It was wonderful to watch her fingers moving deftly and unerringly... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Infallible, incapable of error. 2. Certain, sure, exact, accurate.

Moby Thesaurus

close, constant, delicate, direct, even, exact, express, faithful, fine, incorrupt, incorrupted, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, mathematical, micrometrically precise, microscopic, nice, pinpoint, precise, refined, religious, religiously exact, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scientifically exact, severe, sinless, square, strict, subtle, sure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undebauched, undegenerate, undemoralized, undepraved, undeviating, undissolute, unfallen, uniniquitous, unsinful, unwicked