inerrant

[in-er-uhnt, -ur-]

adjective

1. free from error; infallible.

Other Word Forms

• inerrancy noun
• inerrantly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of inerrant¹

1645–55; < Latin inerrant-, equivalent to in- in- ³ + errant-, stem of errāns present participle of errāre to wander, err; -ant

Example Sentences

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing Christian organization that purports to “affirm the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God,” has lent several of its attorneys to represent Chiles in the case.

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Besides, even an inerrant Bible offers more than one way to interpret women’s roles.

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Robinson was a devoutly Protestant academic who believed in the Bible’s inerrant truth.

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David Neiwert points out that far-right extremists from the Patriot movement to fringe Mormons like the Bundys treat "the original text of the Constitution as though it were Biblically inerrant."

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They embrace the theological red lines drawn in the 1980s, when conservatives wrested control of the denomination in defense of the inerrant truth of the Bible.

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