unerringly
advEtymology From unerring + -ly.
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Without making a mistake, perfectly, directly
- His sense of direction leads us unerringly every time.
- Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is—by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Battering-ram”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 376:
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- By this time his hand had gone unerringly to the book he sought, and he was turning the pages among the Tragedies.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
- It proved the cue for a period of implosion from Wigan, who fell two behind shortly after the hour courtesy of Boyce's costly error, Young firing in unerringly from the spot.2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC: