to err is human (to forgive divine).

Examples of erring

erring

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

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.
Second, if the erring believer does not listen, the correcter must invoke other believers in order to attempt correction in the presence of witnesses.
The translation is precise and accurate, albeit at times erring slightly towards the character of a crib (something one can forgive in a parallel translation).
Thus, they are expected to overgeneralize der when erring on non-masculine monosyllabic nouns and overgeneralize die when erring on non-feminine polysyllabic nouns ending in -e.
A monster is something to be shown; its purpose is "to reveal visibly the results of vice, folly, and unreason, as a warning to erring humanity" (10).
Strict censure implied that if despite the ban, a husband took back an erring wife or a father received home an outcaste son, they too were liable to be outcaste.
Erring politicians are typically 'held accountable' in this way, as are employees and, notably, professionals who hold themselves out as caring as much for their clients as for themselves.
It is difficult to come to a documented compromise, but a range of 3-5% might seem to be reasonable, possibly erring on the high side.
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