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peccancy|ˈpɛkənsɪ|
[ad. L. peccāntia (Tertull. 3rd. c.), f. pr. pple. of peccāre to sin: see -ancy.]
The quality or condition of being peccant.
1. Moral faultiness, sinfulness.
1656Heylin Surv. France 41 The peccancie of an old English Doctor. a1679T. Goodwin Election iv. xii, Sins of commission have more of peccancy in them than sins of omission. 1784Cowper Task ii. 72 Where all deserve And stand exposed by common peccancy To what no few have felt. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. 267 As if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away.
b. A sin, offence, transgression.
1648W. Montagu Devout Ess. i. xii. §2 This distorting of equivocall words, which passeth commonly for a triviall peccancy. 1671True Nonconf. 39 Waving the immodest terme of impudence and other arrant peccancies against truth. 1879G. Meredith Egoist xxxiv, Above most human peccancies, I do abhor a breach of faith.
†2. Faultiness, incorrectness. Obs. rare—1.
c1611Chapman Iliad iii. Comm., But to make a fool non peccans verbis, will make a man nothing wonder at any peccancy or absurdity in men of mere language.
3. Corruptness or disorder of the humours, etc.
1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 178 To cure the manifold peccancy of this juyce by Evacuations. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 105 The saliva is impregnated with a general peccancy. |