All 4 Uses of
infallible
in
War and Peace
- In 1806 Pfuel had been one of those responsible, for the plan of campaign that ended in Jena and Auerstadt, but he did not see the least proof of the fallibility of his theory in the disasters of that war.†
Chpt 9 *
- It was much later, when reports on the battle of Borodino were written at leisure, that the incorrect and extraordinary statement was invented (probably to justify the mistakes of a commander in chief who had to be represented as infallible) that the Shevardino Redoubt was an advanced post—whereas in reality it was simply a fortified point on the left flank—and that the battle of Borodino was fought by us on an entrenched position previously selected, where as it was fought on a quite…†
Chpt 10
- But such a war does not fit in under any rule and is directly opposed to a well-known rule of tactics which is accepted as infallible.†
Chpt 14
- After these fits of irritability her face would grow yellow, and her maids knew by infallible symptoms when Belova would again be deaf, the snuff damp, and the countess' face yellow.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(infallible) never wrong; or never failing