Both Uses
erroneous
in
Gulliver's Travels
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- Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.†
Chpt Intr.
- Yet, as to myself, I must confess, having never been designed for a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was so ill a judge of things, that I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence, but conceived it (perhaps erroneously) rather to be rigorous than gentle.†
Chpt 1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(erroneous) containing or characterized by error
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)