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▪ I. erring, vbl. n.|ˈɜːrɪŋ|
[f. err v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb err; † an instance of the same, a fault.
1483Cath. Angl. 117 An Errynge, erratus, error. 1649H. Lawrence Some Consid. 38 Two sorts of errings. 1654E. Johnson Wond.-wrkg. Provid. 175 Yet have they their errings as well as others. 1699Pomfret Love Triumph. over Reason, There's no erring twice in Love and War. 1727Harte To Pr. Orange (R.), Isis, whose erring on the modest side Th'unkind and ignorant mistake for pride.
▪ II. erring, ppl. a.|ˈɜːrɪŋ|
[f. err v. + -ing2.]
That errs in senses of the vb.: † wandering, roaming (obs.); deviating from the right or intended course, missing the mark; that is in error, or commits errors in opinion or conduct.
a1340Hampole Psalter xiii. 1 Delite of synn egges errand men to ween God noght to be. c1400Lay Folks Mass-bk. App. v. 394 As a Errynge pylgrym in the seruyse of the myghty and dredful god of loue, how many perylous passages and wayes that I ha passyd by. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 154 Th' extrauagant, and erring Spirit, hyes To his Confine. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland Pref. 14 This Ship was intercepted by an English erring Captaine. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 319 Danger..may arise to Religion, by the Subjects tolerating of an..Erring Prince, etc. 1697Dryden Eneid (T.), He all those erring parts described so well, That Theseus conquer'd, and the monster fell. 1715–20Pope Iliad v. 24 His sounding spear, Which..spent in empty air its erring force. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. ii. (1852) 39 Still to erring, wilful man, the way to life is strait. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 173 The erring act which is done without knowledge is one in ignorance.
†b. erring star = planet. Obs.
c1449Pecock Repr. v. i. 480 Erring sterris. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. xv, So doth the Earth one of the erring Seven Wheel round the fixèd sunne. 1697Dryden Virg. (J.), Fix'd and erring stars dispose their influence. |
