Erring Synonyms and Antonyms

To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. veering
  2. swerving
  3. straying
  4. diverging
  5. digressing
  6. deviating
  7. departing
Capable of making an error
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. mistaken
  2. blundering
  3. in error
  4. fallible
  5. straying
  6. errant
  7. deviating
  8. sinful
  9. sinning
  10. error-prone
  11. faulty
  12. delinquent
  13. culpable
  14. criminal
To violate a moral or divine law
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. trespassing
  2. transgressing
  3. sinning
  4. offending

Words Related to Erring

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Erring Sentence Examples

  • The chastisements of erring Jews are of short duration, and intended to recall them to duty.

  • It would, I think, be hard to make her feel just how to pronounce DICTIONARY without her erring either toward DICTIONAYRY or DICTION'RY, and, of course the word is neither one nor the other.

  • In both cases, as it seems, an attempt was made by the bishop of Rome to depose the erring patriarch by his authority as primate of Christendom, acting in concert with a Western synod.

  • He afterwards retracted his compliance with the adiaphora, and never really swerved from the views set forth in the Loci communes; but he regarded the surrender of more perfect for less perfect forms of truth or of expression as a painful sacrifice rendered to the weakness of erring brethren.

  • These had an infinitely wider renown in their day, but modern criticism has restored the balance in his favour, and is even in danger of erring in the opposite direction.

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