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Peccant
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
An offender. [Obs.] Whitlock.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. Milton.
2. Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. Bacon.
3. Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] Ayliffe.