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PECCANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peccant mean?
• PECCANT (adjective)
The adjective PECCANT has 1 sense:
1. liable to sin
Familiarity information: PECCANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Liable to sin
Synonyms:
peccable; peccant
Context example:
a frail and peccable mortal
Similar:
wicked (morally bad in principle or practice)
Context examples
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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