erroneousness

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Wakefield conjectures that Pope altered the line from having learnt the erroneousness of the vulgar belief that the sting of the serpent is in its tail.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

His life in his own family showed the erroneousness of the assertion that a thorough devotion to learning is inconsistent with the claims of family affection.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

Lieutenant Cook hath fully ascertained the erroneousness of this opinion.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew

The erroneousness of the assertion that the volcanoes of the Island of Java do not emit streams of real lava.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

It was therefore with renewed curiosity that I engaged him on this large subject—the universal erroneousness of thinking up to the period when Lentulus began that process.

From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot, George