err

[Err]

When you err, you make a mistake or do something wrong. When a newspaper reporter errs in a printed story, the paper often prints a correction the next day.

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To wander; to roam; to stray.

Verb
to make a mistake or be incorrect

Verb
wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don''t drift from the set course"

v. i.
To wander; to roam; to stray.

v. i.
To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.

v. i.
To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.

v. i.
To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.

v. i.
To offend, as by erring.

Err

> Err , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Erred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Erring (?; 277, 85).] [F. errer, L. errare; akin to G. irren, OHG. irran, v. t., irrn, v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre, Goth, a'a1rzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.] 1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic] "Why wilt thou err from me?" Keble.

What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred.

2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err." Shak. 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.

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?

5. To offend, as by erring.

To wander; to roam; to stray.

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Usage Examples

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

To err is human to forgive, divine.

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The cautious seldom err.

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.