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Definition of "erred" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of err. (verb)
  • Simple past tense and past participle of er. (verb)

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Use "erred" in a sentence
  • "But we are not to restrain this place to the apostle's converting such as erred from the truth; no, nor to other ministerial endeavours of the like nature, since it is said, "If any err, and one convert him, let him be who he will that does so good an office for another, he is therein an instrument of saving a soul from death.""
  • "The US admitting that they erred is a good first step but it's not really enough now, is it?"
  • "All the counsels of Mrs. Arlbery upon this subject occurred to her; and imagining she had hitherto erred from a simple facility, she rejoiced in the accident which had pointed her to a safer path, and shewn her that, in the present disordered state of the opinions of Edgar, the only way to a lasting accommodation was to alarm his security, by asserting her own independence."