Erring vs Herring - What's the difference?
erring | herring |
The act of one who errs; sin.
* 1837 , Matthew Hole, ?John Allen Giles, Practical discourses on the liturgy of the Church of England (page 116)
A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea , often used as food.
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, title= Fish in the family Clupeidae.
Fish similar to those in genus Clupea , many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
As a verb erring
is or erring can be .As a noun erring
is the act of one who errs; sin.As a proper noun herring is
.erring
English
Etymology 1
From the verb err .Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- these errings and strayings are here, according to the language of Scripture, compared to those of sheep, and lost sheep.
Etymology 2
From the verb er .Verb
(head)Anagrams
*herring
English
(wikipedia herring) (Clupea)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring' s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}