PECCANT

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. Milton.

2.
a.

Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. Bacon.

3.
a.

Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] Ayliffe.

4.
n.

An offender. [Obs.] Whitlock.


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