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supremely excellent in quality or nature

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Since each formula bases its calculations on a different effective grain-diameter, more emphasis is made on a determined size fraction, which indefectibly leads to discrepancies in the conductivity distribution.
Leavis holds that 'She is indefectibly real, and the test of reality for others' (Dickens the Novelist, 298); J.
Consequently, as a well-known passage has it, this people, anointed by the Holy One, "are unable to err in matters of belief" and manifest this property "by means of the supernatural sense of faith of all the people, when 'from the bishops to the last of the lay faithful' they show their universal consensus in matters of faith and morals." Lumen gentium adds that by this sensus fidei, itself sustained by the Spirit, the faithful "adhere indefectibly to 'the faith once delivered to the saints' penetrating it more profoundly with right judgment and applying it more fully to life." (101) These passages stress the Spirit-guided instinct or phronema of the faithful for Christian truth, their charism for discerning it more acutely, and their catholic consensus which cannot be ultimately flawed.
The universality and inner cohesion guaranteed the apostolicity of the fides of the faithful because the fidelity exhibited in their lives indefectibly linked them to the message of Jesus Christ.