How To Use peccant In A Sentence
- If a person has an abscess, the medical man will say that it contains "peccant" matter, and people say that they have a "bad" arm or finger, or that they are very "bad" all over, when they only mean "diseased. Erewhon; or, Over the range
- Nimia profecto almplicitate peccant qui scandalizantur quoties audiunt aliquid ex jam olim creditia et juxta breviarii prescriptum hodiedum recitandis, in disputationem adduci. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
- 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. Mug with a Message | Engrish.com
- I need not detail how at the sale he put buyers on their guard, exposing the fraud, and condemning the peccant scarabaei to extinction. My Life as an Author
- Pontifex Romanus prorsus inermis regibus terrae jura dat, ad regna evehit ad pacem cogit, et peccantes castigat, &c. quod imperatores Romani 40. legionibus armati non effecerunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Contrary to his impeccant habit, Average Jones bore the somewhat frazzled aspect of a man who has been up all night. Average Jones
- The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
- Nam quando mulieres cognoscunt maritum hoc advertere, licentius peccant, [6048] as Nevisanus holds, when a woman thinks her husband watcheth her, she will sooner offend; [6049] Liberius peccant, et pudor omnis abest, rough handling makes them worse: as the goodwife of Bath in Chaucer brags, Anatomy of Melancholy
- A woman will imbrue her hands with blood, and a man will fling honor to the winds, and yet the twain regard each other as impeccant and impeccable. Hints for Lovers
- It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
