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Today's Word "fallible"

Liable to make a mistake on

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fallible \FAL-uh-bul\ (adjective) - 1 : Liable to make a mistake. 2 : Liable to be inaccurate or erroneous.

"You are human and fallible... The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted." -- Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre'

 

Fallible derives from Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere, "to deceive." It is related to fail, false (from falsum, the past participle of fallere), fallacy ("a false notion"), fault (from Old French falte, from fallere), and faucet (from Old Provençal falsar, "to falsify, to create a fault in, to bore through," from fallere).


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