noun
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the state or an instance of erring or a tendency to err
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Christianity the holding of views at variance with accepted doctrine
Etymology
Origin of errancy
First recorded in 1615–25, errancy is from the Latin word errantia a wandering. See errant, -cy
Example Sentences
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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.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 23, 2019
She liked to think and to say that after all, in spite of her husband's errancy, Chicago was also her city.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert
But those who knew Mr. Woods personally will readily acquit him of the charge of any such ethnological errancy.
From The Colored Inventor A Record of Fifty Years by Baker, Henry E.
Such errancy betrays a violent and egotistical personality, increases one's sense of corporeality, and begets a fear of the senses and a perpetually egotistical sensibility.
From Retrospection and Introspection by Eddy, Mary Baker
He replied collectedly enough in speech, but with that ramble and errancy clouding his eyes.
From The Insurrection in Dublin by Stephens, James
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