All 6 Uses of
infallible
in
1984, by Orwell
- She had even (an infallible mark of good reputation) been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles.†
p. 130.6
- Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful.†
p. 208.2 *
- Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.†
p. 212.4
- But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.†
p. 212.5
- But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party.†
p. 213.1infallibility = the quality of never being wrong or making a mistake
- For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.†
p. 215.5
Definition:
never wrong; or never failing