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peccant

adj
/ˈpɛk(ə)nt/US

Etymology

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French peccant (“unhealthy”) (modern French peccant), and from its etymon Late Latin peccantis, the genitive singular of peccāns (“offending; sinning, transgressing”, adjective), from Latin peccāns (“wrongdoer”), a noun use of the active present participle of peccō (“to offend; to sin, transgress”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to fall; to stumble; to step; to walk”). As regards adjective sense 3 (“diseased, unhealthy”) as used in peccant humours, compare Middle French l'umeur peccante, humeurs peccantes, Old French humeurs pechantes, and Late Latin humores peccantes. The noun is derived from the adjective.

  1. derived from *ped-✻ — “to fall; to stumble; to step; to walk”
  2. derived from peccāns — “wrongdoer”
  3. borrowed from peccantis
  4. borrowed from peccant — “unhealthy”

Definitions

  1. Of a person, etc.

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

    • But let us call to Synod all the Bleſt / Through Heav'ns wide bounds; from them I will not hide / My judgments, how with Mankind I proceed, / As how with peccant Angels late they ſaw; / And in thir ſtate, though firm, ſtood more confirmd.
    • [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.

  2. Of an action or thing

    Of an action or thing: causing offence or sin; offensive, sinful.

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

  3. Especially of humours of the body

    Especially of humours of the body: diseased, unhealthy; also, causing disease.

    • Thus haue I deſcribed and opened as by a kinde of diſſection, thoſe peccant humors (the principall of them) vvhich hath not onely giuen impediment to the proficence of Learning, but haue giuen alſo occaſion, to the traducement thereof: […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Offending a norm, a rule, etc.

      Offending a norm, a rule, etc.; defective, faulty, wrong.

      • Nor is the Party cited bound to appear, if the Citation be evidently peccant in point of Form or Matter.

    2. An offender

      An offender; also, a sinner.

      • Yet this conceitedneſſe and Itch of being taken for a Counſellour, maketh more Reprovers, than Peccants in the vvorld.

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Derived

peccantly, peccantness

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA