Definition of "err" []

• To make an error or a mistake. (verb-intransitive)
• To violate accepted moral standards; sin. (verb-intransitive)
• Archaic To stray. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Having argued that the right of slavery, if it exist, implies the right to shoot and murder an enlightened neighbor, with a view to reduce his wife and children to a state of servitude, as well as to crush their intellectual and moral nature in order to keep them in such a state, the author adds, "If I err in making these inferences, I _err innocently_.""
• "; if (count ($err)) $_SESSION [ 'msg'] [ 'reg-err']"
• "To err is human, to be intentionally wrong all the time requires a liberal!"