Definitions for peccant

peccant pec·cant

Spelling: [pek-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈpɛk ənt/

Peccant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in peccant (accenpt).

Definitions for peccant

adjective

  1. sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
  2. violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong.

Origin of peccant

1595-1605; Latin peccant- (stem of peccāns), present participle of peccāre to err, offend; see -ant

Examples for peccant

But it is useless and canting to say that peccant women are worse than men.

To read the words as referring to the peccant verse, is to take the clinch off the whole passage.

Thus brought to book, the peccant Gibbons confesses to what has occurred in all its details.

The two peccant riders unfortunately were Sir Griffin and Lucinda.

The press is a great and peccant engine; and who has public interest more at heart than your editor?

This idea had occurred to Joe from his remembrance of a peccant hound in the grasp of a tyrant whip.

Adeline exclaimed, going to the mirror to rearrange the peccant tissue.

But there is one touchstone by which the peccant element in them may be at once detected.

Nor did the peccant Lieutenant James think it worth while to resign his commission.

The fictitious nephew Fitzvictor was apparently a son of the Victor who had but recently collaborated with the peccant Cazire.

Word Value for peccant
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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