noun
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the state or an instance of erring or a tendency to err
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Christianity the holding of views at variance with accepted doctrine
Etymology
Origin of errancy
First recorded in 1615–25, errancy is from the Latin word errantia a wandering. See errant, -cy
Example Sentences
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Traversing Central and Eastern Europe, New York, California, the Southwestern U. S., Buenos Aires, and Haiti, Reines resembles a cosmic outlaw, a modern-day wandering Jew, whose errancy and alienation disrupts illusions of order.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 23, 2019
Even if he should come to love her less passionately than at the beginning, he was the loyal sort of American, who would not let that fact furnish him with excuse for errancy.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert
I have not taken a brief to prove the errancy of Scripture.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
But those who knew Mr. Woods personally will readily acquit him of the charge of any such ethnological errancy.
From The Colored Inventor A Record of Fifty Years by Baker, Henry E.
He replied collectedly enough in speech, but with that ramble and errancy clouding his eyes.
From The Insurrection in Dublin by Stephens, James
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