ERRONEOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erroneously mean? 

• ERRONEOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ERRONEOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a mistaken or erroneous manner

  Familiarity information: ERRONEOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERRONEOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a mistaken or erroneous manner

Synonyms:

erroneously; mistakenly

Context example:

he mistakenly believed it

Pertainym:

erroneous (containing or characterized by error)

 Context examples 

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet, as to myself, I must confess, having never been designed for a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was so ill a judge of things, that I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence, but conceived it (perhaps erroneously) rather to be rigorous than gentle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)