0 present participle of err
1 to make a mistake or to do something wrong:
He erred in agreeing to her appointment to the position.
By erring on the side of life, too, one tries to keep in check any subjective quality-of-life judgments.
The loss of market and therefore a livelihood was sure to bring any erring person to heel!
The warm-up was also designed to eliminate any children who were unable to follow the directions by erring on 2 of 3 trials.
An underlying principle of abstract interpretation is to approximate perfect information by 'erring on the safe side'.
I am delighted to be characterised as a utopian, erring on the side of the normative.
For neuter and feminine monosyllabic nouns, children overgeneralized der more frequently than die or das, thus erring systematically in the direction of the rule.
The decision rule was purposely restrictive, erring on the side of exclusion.
Erring too far toward centralization will prove stifling, demoralizing, demotivating, and disempowering.
