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peccant
[ pek-uhnt ]
adjective
- sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong.
peccant
/ ˈpɛkənt /
adjective
- guilty of an offence; corrupt
- violating or disregarding a rule; faulty
- producing disease; morbid
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Derived Forms
- ˈpeccancy, noun
- ˈpeccantly, adverb
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Other Words From
- peccan·cy peccant·ness noun
- peccant·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of peccant1
C17: from Latin peccans, from peccāre to sin
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Example Sentences
This ultimate salvation of all mankind, and of all peccant spirits, is a conspicuous doctrine of Mr Bailey's.
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The first was to observe strict "propriety" in her books—a point in which the novel had always been a little peccant.
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Betty, not really knowing what she was doing, bent over the peccant milkman's book.
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It would be easy to crush up a peccant borough or two,—a borough that had been discovered in its sin.
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This idea had occurred to Joe from his remembrance of a peccant hound in the grasp of a tyrant whip.
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