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peccant

peccant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. Bacon.
  2. 2.Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] Ayliffe.
  3. 3.An offender. [Obs.] Whitlock.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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