Citations:erration

English citations of erration

• 1704, John Corbet, The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion, page 49:

  Upon occasion of any erration in Doctrine or Practice they recal us to the primitive Rule and Pattern; and what is received from the Lord, that deliver they to the Churches.

• 1804, Mark Noble, A history of the College of arms, and the lives of all the kings, heralds, and pursuivants, page 265:

  An erration from duty was ill-rewarded by those for whom the disloyal officers at arms declared: […]

• 1832, William Sampson, William Cooke Taylor, Memoirs of William Sampson, page 124:

  In the barge with us had been sent, by whose care or whose bounty I could not learn, a provision of wine, fowls, onions, and other articles, amply sufficient for a short voyage, but very inadequate to that long and cruel erration which we were destined to undergo.

• 1851, Robert Bigsby, Old Places Revisited: Or, the Antiquarian Enthusiast, volume 3, page 6:

  And now, courteous reader, be informed that what followeth is marked by so wide a departure from the trodden paths of every-day fact—by so strangely remote an erration into the wilds of the wonderful […]