to err is human (to forgive divine).

Examples of erred

erred

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

If they erred, the experimenter pronounced the item again and the children repeated it.
However, among those subjects who erred only once, the error tended to occur with the first pseudo-homonym presentation.
To agree with the unanimous majority on even a single trial was to have erred.
Only later did management acknowledge that they had erred.
No more than one listener erred for any one pair.
For example, when asked to find the stickbug, the children who erred most often selected the stick, rather than the other (not stick-like) bug.
Furthermore, children erred in the direction of the rule overgeneralizing der.
The coding scheme erred on the side of inclusiveness, adding a separate code for even esoteric positions.
The common core complaint underlying many criticisms has been that psychology's founders erred strategically by modeling their science after the 19th century natural sciences.
For him something was always better than nothing - even if that something often erred dangerously on the side of guesswork.
Past views almost undoubtedly erred in ascribing too much potency to environmental effects.
This is shown by the simple fact that we hold that scientists have erred in the past in their interpretation of their own theories.
The scribe who added these numbers also erred very early.
When voters fail to elect their most preferred candidate, they have erred.
The sectarians erred not because they were misled, hypocritical or illinformed, but, their detractors charged, because their bodies were sick.
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