peccancy

Definitions

1. A sin or moral transgression.
   countable
2. Sinfulness.
   countable, uncountable
3. A state of being flawed; faultiness.
   countable, rare, uncountable
4. Unhealthiness.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“[T]his distorting of equivocall words, which passeth commonly for a triviall peccancy, if it be well examined, will be found a very dangerous admission; for me thinks this may be termed a verbal adultery, as it vitiateth and corrupts the property of another, which would have⟳ remained innocent without that sollicitation, and therefore seemeth much a souler fault, than a single incontinency of our own⟳ words.”

“For it is then as if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let⟳ all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and open⟳ to every nobler leaning.”

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