American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - Sinning; offending;
guilty; causing offense. - Morbid; bad; corrupt; not healthy. -
Imperfect; erroneous; incorrect: as, a, peccant citation. - n.
An offender. GNU Webster's 1913 - adj. Sinning; guilty of
transgression; criminal. - adj. Morbid; corrupt. - adj. rare
Wrong; defective; faulty. - n. obsolete An offender. - adj.
liable to sin - Latin peccāns, peccantis (Wiktionary) - Latin
peccāns, peccant-, present participle of peccāre, to sin; see
ped- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of
the English Language, Fourth Edition) “Nothing is safe from this
porcelain peccant pilferer, this corrupt criminal crockery, for
the moment you turn your back, this amazing Ash Tray will
abscond with all your electronic posessions and sell them on
ebay.” “Yesterday, he by severe cross-examination extracted from
Lord MORLEY admission of personal knowledge of what are known as
the peccant paragraphs in d