err
/er/ • verb 1 be mistaken or incorrect. 2 do wrong. — PHRASES err on the side of display more rather than less of (a specified quality) in one’s actions. to err is human, to forgive divine proverb it is human nature to make mistakes oneself while finding it hard to forgive others. — ORIGIN Latin errare ‘to stray’.
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