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Infallibility
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What's The Definition Of Infallibility?
[n] the quality of never making an error
Synonyms | Synonyms for Infallibility: Related Terms | Find terms related to Infallibility: absolute certainty | absoluteness | assurance | assuredness | certain knowledge | certainness | certainty | certitude | chastity | dead certainty | defectlessness | definiteness | determinacy | determinateness | faultlessness | finish | flawlessness | immaculateness | impeccability | ineluctability | inerrability | inerrancy | inevitability | infallibilism | necessity | nonambiguity | noncontingency | perfection | positiveness | predestination | predetermination | probatum | proved fact | purity | sinlessness | spotlessness | stainlessness | sureness | surety | taintlessness | truth | unambiguity | unequivocalness | univocity | unmistakableness See Also | dependability | dependableness | inerrancy | Papal infallibility | reliability | reliableness Infallibility In Webster's Dictionary \In*fal`li*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
infaillibilit['e].]
The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from
error; inerrability.
Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing
faculty. --Tillotson.
{Papal infallibility} (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope
can not, when acting in his official character of supreme
pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or
rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed
by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 1870.
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