Peccant

Quick meaning: Peccant is an adjective meaning Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.

Meaning

Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.

More Meanings

1. Of an action or thing: causing offence or sin; offensive, sinful.
2. (pathology, historical, also figurative) Especially of humours of the body: diseased, unhealthy; also, causing disease.
3. (obsolete) Offending a norm, a rule, etc.; defective, faulty, wrong.
4. (obsolete) An offender; also, a sinner.

Example Sentences

[T]he VVorld is novv ſo peccant upon this Account, that I am afraid Inſtances vvould be miſtaken for Invectives.

[He] was bereaving his houses of the matronly government, deprived of which they were all of them likely soon to be at sixes and sevens with disorderly lacqueys, peccant maids, and cooks in hysterics.

[T]he fact that the peccant doctor [Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet] continued in the Queen's service made the Hastings family irreconcilable and produced an unpleasant impression of unrepentant error upon the public mind.

[T]hat a peccant Creature ſhould diſapprove, and repent of every Violation of, and Declination from the Rules of juſt and honeſt, this, right Reaſon diſcourſing upon the Stock of its ovvn Principles, could not but infer.

Word Forms

• peccants

Synonyms for peccant

Depending on context, synonyms include erroneous, incorrect, wicked, peccable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wicked, peccable, humors, humours, sinful, soulsick.

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