UNERRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unerring mean? 

• UNERRING (adjective)
  The adjective UNERRING has 1 sense:

1. not liable to error

  Familiarity information: UNERRING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNERRING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not liable to error

Synonyms:

inerrable; inerrant; unerring

Context example:

an unerring marksman

Similar:

infallible (incapable of failure or error)

 Context examples 

Then the pursuit slackened, for they learned our power and would no longer face that unerring rifle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was now so dark that there was no sign of the boat; but Wolf Larsen held back through the frightful turmoil as if guided by unerring instinct.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their subjects are, generally on friendship and benevolence, on order and economy; sometimes upon the visible operations of nature, or ancient traditions; upon the bounds and limits of virtue; upon the unerring rules of reason, or upon some determinations to be taken at the next great assembly: and often upon the various excellences of poetry.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I left him an excellent mark in the window, and, having warned the police that they might be needed—by the way, Watson, you spotted their presence in that doorway with unerring accuracy—I took up what seemed to me to be a judicious post for observation, never dreaming that he would choose the same spot for his attack.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the unerring instinct of her noble heart, she touched the chords of my memory so softly and harmoniously, that not one jarred within me; I could listen to the sorrowful, distant music, and desire to shrink from nothing it awoke.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A fraction of a second too long in the water and the fine and silken edge of the proper heat was lost, and Martin found time to marvel at the accuracy he developed—an automatic accuracy, founded upon criteria that were machine-like and unerring.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)