peccant

Latin peccāns, peccantis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛkənt/

peccant (comparative more peccant, superlative most peccant)

1. (obsolete) Unhealthy; causing disease.
   • Francis Bacon

     peccant humours

2. Sinful.
   • Milton

     peccant angels

3. Wrong; defective; faulty.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)

   • 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians.

     Olive rested her eyes for some moments upon Mrs. Luna, without speaking. Then she said: 'Your veil is not put on straight, Adeline.'
     'I look like a monster—that, evidently, is what you mean!' Adeline exclaimed, going to the mirror to rearrange the peccant tissue.

• impeccable
• peccable

peccant (plural peccants)

1. (obsolete) An offender.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Whitlock to this entry?)

• peccant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• peccant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• peccant at OneLook Dictionary Search

peccant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of peccō