errancy

[er-uhn-see, ur-]

noun

plural

errancies 

1. the state or an instance of erring. erring.

2. tendency to err.

ˈerrancy

/ ˈɛrənsɪ /

noun

1. the state or an instance of erring or a tendency to err

2. Christianity the holding of views at variance with accepted doctrine

Word History and Origins

Origin of ˈerrancy¹

First recorded in 1615–25, errancy is from the Latin word errantia a wandering. See errant, -cy

Example Sentences

Was Brady's occasional errancy, with a quarterback rating just 19th in the league at season's end, the fault of an arm that doesn't always do his bidding anymore, and skittishness under pressure?

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Traversing Central and Eastern Europe, New York, California, the Southwestern U. S., Buenos Aires, and Haiti, Reines resembles a cosmic outlaw, a modern-day wandering Jew, whose errancy and alienation disrupts illusions of order.

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Nature makes lots of mistakes in the process of evolving its creatures to fulfill the process of natural selection but we cannot afford that same errancy.

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The entire compass of his errancy is present in his opening lines:

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Like Milne’s books, the movie is partly an initiation into the delightful errancies of language, which fashions sense and nonsense out of the same materials.

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