peccant

Meanings

Plural: peccants

Adjective Satellite

liable to sin; - Sir Walter Scott

Adj

Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.
Of an action or thing: causing offence or sin; offensive, sinful.
Especially of humours of the body: diseased, unhealthy; also, causing disease.
Offending a norm, a rule, etc.; defective, faulty, wrong.

Noun

An offender; also, a sinner.

Origin / Etymology

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French peccant (“unhealthy”) (modern French peccant), and from its etymon Late Latin peccantis, the genitive singular of peccāns (“offending; sinning, transgressing”, adjective), from Latin peccāns (“wrongdoer”), a noun use of the active present participle of peccō (“to offend; to sin, transgress”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to fall; to stumble; to step; to walk”).
As regards sense 3 (“diseased, unhealthy”) as used in peccant humours, compare Middle French l'umeur peccante, humeurs peccantes, Old French humeurs pechantes, and Late Latin humores peccantes.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Synonyms

erroneous, incorrect, peccable

Scrabble Score: 13

peccant is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
peccant is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
peccant is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

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