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Example sentences for "erroneous"

Lexicographically close words:
erred; erreth; erreur; erreurs; erring; erroneously; erroneousness; erronious; error; errore
  1. Nothing can be more erroneous and delusive.

  2. But he is a rabid Carlist, a supporter of erroneous doctrines on more than one point relating to Spain, and at times his predilections clash with the desire to be impartial, by which we doubt not he is really animated.

  3. I had been under the impression--the erroneous impression--that you were yourself prepared to advance this small sum.

  4. If he had personal views and wanted to regain the station and power which he had lost, never did any man take such false steps and pursue so erroneous a course to obtain his ends.

  5. The Privy Council have laid down doctrines on matters of ritual which are held to be erroneous by a large body of the clergy, and Ritualists have gone to prison rather than treat the judgment of the Privy Council as of moral validity.

  6. It is when a Court gives what is thought to be an erroneous decision on matters exciting the feelings of large classes that the difficulty of obtaining acquiescence in its judgments is palpable.

  7. It is a statement as erroneous and misleading as can be any assertion made in good faith by a writer who must be presumed to have studied the measure of which he is speaking.

  8. If upon such a question I have fallen into an erroneous construction, I submit whether it should be characterized as a violation of official duty and of law.

  9. I need no other proof of this than the frequent employment in lectures, speeches, and official language of the erroneous expression, "applied science.

  10. The opinion appears to be prevalent that it is the snout of a glacier that must act the part of ploughshare; and it is certainly an erroneous opinion.

  11. Besides the utter discrepancy of these names to those of any cities now in China, it appears obvious, that the direction of the itinerary in the text is erroneous or corrupted.

  12. It must be noticed, that Alfred was unacquainted with any more of Africa than its northern coast, along the Mediterranean, which explains this erroneous idea of its size being inferior to Europe.

  13. Called by mistake, or erroneous transcription, Wendel sea, or Mediterranean in the text and translation.

  14. The description of this palace is exceedingly confused and unintelligible, most probably from erroneous transcription and mistakes in translation.

  15. The Saracens are here much abused by the mistake of our traveller; as, however erroneous their religious opinions, they worship the true God only, and abhor even the least semblance of idolatry.

  16. This erroneous assumption is the tortoise, on which stands the elephant that upholds his system of atheism.

  17. The maxims of indirect Magic, that a likeness may be substituted for the thing itself, or a part of it for the whole, are merely formulA| of causation assumed under an erroneous belief as to what can be a cause.

  18. Even perception depends for its meaning upon implicit ideas, and erroneous perception is due to erroneous ideas.

  19. The best known example of the erroneous extension by analogy of a sound method is the sucking-cure.

  20. It would, however, be very erroneous to suppose that the rich alone lie buried here.

  21. It would, however, be erroneous to suppose that these soldiers mount guard in their uniforms.

  22. Nothing can be more erroneous than the idea of a firm and unchangeable outline of our continents, such as is impressed upon us in early youth by defective lessons on geography, which are devoid of a geological basis.

  23. Conscious distortion of meaning may be enjoyed as nonsense; erroneous meanings, if clear-cut, may be followed up and got rid of.

  24. The very importance of thought for life makes necessary its control by education because of its natural tendency to go astray, and because social influences exist that tend to form habits of thought leading to inadequate and erroneous beliefs.

  25. The Abbe Busoni did right to send you to me," he went on in his ordinary tone, "and you have done well in relating to me the whole of your history, as it will prevent my forming any erroneous opinions concerning you in future.

  26. The amendment, it was said, corrected a most erroneous representation of a matter of fact, and it pledged parliament to nothing more than a cautious inquiry into the origin of the state of things which in fact existed.

  27. I do not mean to pronounce their panegyric, but must observe, in extenuation, the erroneous and infatuated counsels which have prevailed here.

  28. Sir Francis Burdett objected to the course proposed; but, at the same time, he stated that it was his conviction that the landed interest, in which he was himself concerned, was under erroneous impressions on the subject.

  29. The petition also complained of an erroneous calculation of expenses made by the committee, and stated that those of the commission would be defrayed by savings meditated, to the great benefit of the creditors.

  30. That crafty power had taken advantage of an erroneous French map, introduced by the French diplomatists at the conference, to deceive the allies as to the boundary agreed upon.

  31. His views of political economy were erroneous and impracticable; yet he seemed to pride himself upon his absurd economical theories.

  32. Now, if, as in the case of the Reformers, this conception be recognised as erroneous and unevangelical, the result must certainly be a strong detestation of "the divine Church law.

  33. But, whilst recognising this fact, we must not make the erroneous assumption that the fundamental conceptions and interests of Justin and the rest were in reality other than may be inferred from their Apologies.

  34. By the Logos becoming man, the type of the perfect man made its appearance," formulates Irenæus' meaning correctly and excludes the erroneous idea that he viewed the Logos himself as the prototype of humanity.

  35. That the enemies of the Government and the State, whose erroneous conceptions of liberty have led to this burst of anarchist feelings, be left to the operation of the police laws.

  36. Errors in pronunciation, modulation and general expression are of frequent occurrence, and it sometimes seems that the erroneous utterance of whole classes of words league the tongue and ear against their right use.

  37. This erroneous name has continued in use ever since, notwithstanding attempts at its correction.

  38. That this view is erroneous is, I think, very evident.

  39. The hallucinations of sleep we accept as realities just as the insane individual believes in all the erroneous impressions made upon his senses.

  40. Unfortunately in a profession like ours, in a science of art like ours, it often is absolutely impossible to answer a question categorically without conveying an erroneous impression to the jury.

  41. He gradually evolved the idea that diseases are caused by erroneous thinking, and that his cures resulted from changing these wrong mental states for those based upon true conceptions.

  42. And in this phase of the consideration, it will be well for us to first dispel the erroneous ideas concerning disease which we have been entertaining.

  43. HARDY's documentary researches have confirmed my conjectures as to the erroneous date assigned for the death of the first husband of Jane Beaufort.


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