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title: Infallibility
date: 2006-06-15 14:11:00.00 -8
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categories: general
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**in•fal•li•bil•i•ty** |in?fal??bilit?|
noun
the quality of being infallible; the inability to be wrong : _his judgment became impaired by faith in his own infallibility_. • (also **papal infallibility**) (in the Roman Catholic Church) the doctrine that in specified circumstances the pope is incapable of error in pronouncing dogma.

ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete French **infallibilité** or medieval Latin **infallibilitas** (based on Latin **fallere ‘deceive’** ).

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Stupid. And I'm not railing against the bit about the Pope.