infallible
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible.
形容词 adj.
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Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
— He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.
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Certain to produce the intended effect; sure.
— Try this infallible cure for hiccups.
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Certain to result from a specific cause; inevitable.
— Paley can only account for this fact by saying that we are constrained by the fear of punishment in a future life, such having been declared to us by revelation to be the infallible result of wrong action.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible.
词源 2
From Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible.
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