Err

Definition of Err

Pronunciation: ẽr
v. i.1.To wander; to roam; to stray.
[imp. & p. p. Erred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Erring (?; 277, 85).]
What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred.
- Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 12).
2.To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
3.To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
The man may err in his judgment of circumstances.
- Tillotson.
4.To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
Do they not err that devise evil?
- Prov. xiv. 22.
5.To offend, as by erring.

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