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| | infallible | (อินแฟล'ละเบิล) adj. ไม่รู้จักผิดพลาด, ไม่ทำผิดพลาด, แน่นอนที่สุด. n. บุคคลที่ไม่ทำผิดพลาด, บุคคลที่ถูกตลอด, สิ่งที่ถูกต้องตลอด., See also: infallibility, infallibleness n. infallibly adv., Syn. allwise, unerring |
| | | | | infallibility | (n) the quality of never making an error, Ant. fallibility | | infallible | (adj) incapable of failure or error, Ant. fallible, Example: an infallible antidote; an infallible memory; the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible; no doctor is infallible |
| | Infallibilist | n. One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Infallibility | n. [ Cf. F. infaillibilité. ] The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. [ 1913 Webster ] Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Infallible | a. [ Pref. in- not + fallible: cf. F. infallible. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. [ 1913 Webster ] To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (R. C. Ch.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Infallibleness | n. The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Infallibly | adv. In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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