inerrant
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- inerrancy noun
- inerrantly adverb
Etymology
Origin of inerrant
1645–55; < Latin inerrant-, equivalent to in- in- 3 + errant-, stem of errāns present participle of errāre to wander, err; -ant
Example Sentences
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Besides, even an inerrant Bible offers more than one way to interpret women’s roles.
From Los Angeles Times
Robinson was a devoutly Protestant academic who believed in the Bible’s inerrant truth.
From Scientific American
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."
From Salon
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.
From New York Times
My late father considered the Bible the inerrant Word of God ghostwritten by a single privileged eyewitness from creation to revelation.
From New York Times
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