fallible

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FAL'LIBLE, adjective [Latin fallo, to deceive.] 1. Liable to fail or mistake; that may err or be deceived in judgment. All men are fallible 2. Liable to error; that may deceive. Our judgments, our faculties, our opinions are fallible; our hopes are fallible
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