Infallibly
adverb
In a way that cannot be wrong or fail.
The doctor diagnosed the disease infallibly.

Often appears as...
- diagnose infallibly
- predict infallibly
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Formal
Academic
adverb
In a way that always achieves the desired result.
This method works infallibly.

Often appears as...
- work infallibly
- perform infallibly
adverb
In a way that is certain, definite, and not able to be wrong.
The Pope is believed to speak infallibly on matters of faith and morals.

Often appears as...
- speak infallibly
- proclaim infallibly
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adverb
In a way that cannot be wrong or fail.
The doctor diagnosed the disease infallibly.

Often appears as...
- diagnose infallibly
- predict infallibly
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adverb
In a way that always achieves the desired result.
This method works infallibly.

Often appears as...
- work infallibly
- perform infallibly
adverb
In a way that is certain, definite, and not able to be wrong.
The Pope is believed to speak infallibly on matters of faith and morals.

Often appears as...
- speak infallibly
- proclaim infallibly
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
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Absolute Certainty
Used when surety is absolute and mistakes are impossible.

Her intuition was infallibly accurate.
Expert Knowledge
Implies the person has expert skills or knowledge.

He can infallibly solve any math problem.
Not Literal
Often used for emphasis, not that it's truly infallible.

The app predicts traffic infallibly.
Absolute Certainty
Used when surety is absolute and mistakes are impossible.

Her intuition was infallibly accurate.
Expert Knowledge
Implies the person has expert skills or knowledge.

He can infallibly solve any math problem.
Not Literal
Often used for emphasis, not that it's truly infallible.

The app predicts traffic infallibly.
Absolute Certainty
Used when surety is absolute and mistakes are impossible.

Her intuition was infallibly accurate.
Expert Knowledge
Implies the person has expert skills or knowledge.

He can infallibly solve any math problem.
Not Literal
Often used for emphasis, not that it's truly infallible.

The app predicts traffic infallibly.
Video examples
How location might help...
and terrorists but this method is becoming available for the first time for individuals and businesses to protect themselves from cybercrime and that's the key idea if you can infallibly distinguish between user locations and hacker locations you
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Tim Harford: Trial,...
So the symptoms of the complex are, no matter how complicated the problem, you have an absolutely overwhelming belief that you are infallibly right in your solution. Now Archie was a doctor,
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How location might help...
and terrorists but this method is becoming available for the first time for individuals and businesses to protect themselves from cybercrime and that's the key idea if you can infallibly distinguish between user locations and hacker locations you
Video examples
Tim Harford: Trial,...
So the symptoms of the complex are, no matter how complicated the problem, you have an absolutely overwhelming belief that you are infallibly right in your solution. Now Archie was a doctor,
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Quote examples
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

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William Cavendish
British Public Servant
The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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Petrarch
Italian Poet
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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Joseph Addison
English Writer
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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John Fiske
American Philosopher
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Quote examples
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

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William Cavendish
British Public Servant
The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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Petrarch
Italian Poet
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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Joseph Addison
English Writer
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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John Fiske
American Philosopher
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

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