erroneousness

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The recent excavations on the 478 Acropolis have proved the erroneousness of the view, strongly maintained by Brunn, that the mass of the black-figured vases were of a late and imitative fabric.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Mr. Clodd has most frankly and good-humouredly acknowledged the erroneousness of his remark.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

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

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

I give no opinion as to the accuracy or erroneousness of this view.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)