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Errancy

Definitions: Errancy

Errancy

Noun

1. (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with Papal infallibility; "he denies the errancy of the Catholic Church".

2. Fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Errancy \Er"ran*cy\, noun. [Latin expression errantia.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Antonym: inerrancy (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Errancy

DomainTitle

Books

  • C.S. Lewis on Scripture: His Thoughts on the Nature of Biblical Inspiration, the Role of Revelation, and the Question of Errancy (reference)

  • Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T. S. Eliot, James Joyce (reference)

  • Evidence of Errancy (reference)

  • From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J (Phaenomenologica, Vol 133) (reference)

  • The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Errancy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

biblical errancy

7

bible errancy

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Errancy

Language Translations for "errancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mendim i gabuar. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

заблуждение (error, misguidance, mistake), заблуда (deception, fallacy, misbelief, mistake, phantom, reverie, swiz), погрешимост (fallibility). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλάνη (delusion, error, fallacy, plane, planer, planing machine, smoothing plane). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tévedésben levés. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

errancyay

   

Portuguese

  

desviar (avert, deflect, depart, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, divert, fend, foil, head office, Parry, shunt, swerve, ward off). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заблуждение (aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, delusion, error, fallacy, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, mistake, wrongheadedness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sklonost grešenju. (various references)

   

Thai

  

พฤติกรรมที่ไม่ถูกต้อง, ความโน้มเอียงในการกระทำผิ"หรือประพฤติตัวไม่เหมาะสม. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự sai sót (error), sự sai lầm (error, fallacy, falsehood, stumble). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Errancy

Derivations

Words ending with "errancy": aberrancy, inerrancy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Errancy"

Words rhyming with "errancy" (pronounced 'Er"ran*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Errancy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-r-r-y"

-1 letter: carney, yarner.

-2 letters: caner, carer, carny, carry, crane, nacre, racer, rance, reran, yarer, yearn.

-3 letters: acne, acre, aery, cane, care, carn, carr, cyan, earn, eyra, narc, nary, near, race, racy, rare, rear, yare, yarn, yean, year.

-4 letters: ace, ane, any, arc, are, aye, can, car, cay, cry, ear, era, ern, err, nae, nay, ran.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-r-r-y"
 

+1 letter: cinerary, jerrycan.

 

+2 letters: aberrancy, carpentry, cranberry, inerrancy, jerrycans, mercenary, parcenary.

 

+3 letters: barleycorn, chinaberry, cornerways, recarrying, regeneracy.

 

+4 letters: barleycorns, candleberry, contrariety, coparcenary, cordwainery, craniometry, intercalary, irrelevancy, mercenarily, reactionary.

 

+5 letters: accretionary, archdeaconry, consecratory, conservatory, contemporary, counterrally, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, gerontocracy, recessionary, renunciatory, secretionary, tercentenary, transparency, vernacularly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Errancy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 72 72 61 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110010 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#114 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0072 0072 0061 006E 0063 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39848467806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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