diff --git a/components/form/introduction.rst b/components/form/introduction.rst
index 825b2402c17..9222d5b42a0 100644
--- a/components/form/introduction.rst
+++ b/components/form/introduction.rst
@@ -697,6 +697,13 @@ method to access the list of errors. It returns a
     This is useful, for example, if you want to use PHP's ``array_`` function
     on the form errors.
 
+Clearing Form Errors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Any errors can be manually cleared using the :method:`Symfony\\Component\\Form\\FormInterface::clearErrors`
+method. This is useful when you'd like to validate the form without showing validation errors to the user
+(i.e. during a partial AJAX submission or :doc:`dynamic form modification </cookbook/form/dynamic_form_modification>`).
+
 .. _Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/form
 .. _Twig:      http://twig.sensiolabs.org
 .. _`Twig Configuration`: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/intro.html
diff --git a/cookbook/form/dynamic_form_modification.rst b/cookbook/form/dynamic_form_modification.rst
index 9107ae6a89a..2e72fa144c0 100644
--- a/cookbook/form/dynamic_form_modification.rst
+++ b/cookbook/form/dynamic_form_modification.rst
@@ -731,3 +731,26 @@ all of this, use a listener::
 
     By doing this, you may accidentally disable something more than just form
     validation, since the ``POST_SUBMIT`` event may have other listeners.
+
+Clearing Form Errors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Alternatively, if you want to perform validation but not show errors to the user
+during the AJAX reload, you could instead clear them before rendering the form::
+
+    public function createAction(Request $request)
+    {
+        $meetup = new SportMeetup();
+        $form = $this->createForm(new SportMeetupType(), $meetup);
+        $form->handleRequest($request);
+        if ($form->isValid()) {
+            // ... save the meetup, redirect etc.
+        }
+
+        $form->clearErrors(true);
+
+        return $this->render(
+            'AppBundle:Meetup:create.html.twig',
+            array('form' => $form->createView())
+        );
+    }