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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 sinplay

  Familiarity information: PECCANT used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PECCANT (adjective)


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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