Hypertext Webster Gateway: "infallibility"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Infallibility \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

infallibility
n : the quality of never making an error [ant: {fallibility}]


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