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Today's Word "peccant"

Guilty of transgression on

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peccant \PEK-unt\ (adjective) - 1 : Sinning; guilty of transgression. 2 : Violating a rule or a principle.

"It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours..." -- Jonathan Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels'

 

Peccant comes from the present participle of Latin of peccare, "to sin."


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