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‖ peccavi|pɛˈkeɪvaɪ, pɛkˈkɑːviː|
Also 7 pecavie.
[L. peccāvī ‘I have sinned’.]
‘I have sinned’, in the phrase ‘to cry peccavi’; hence an acknowledgement or confession of guilt.
So peccavimus ‘we have sinned’; peccavit ‘he has sinned’.
[1509Fisher Fun. Serm. Hen. VII Wks. (1876) 272 Kynge Dauid that wrote this psalme, with one worde spekynge his herte was chaunged sayenge Peccaui.] 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 65 Much soner shall al other be subiect vnto him, and crie Peccaui. 1592G. Harvey Four Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 199 That he, which in the ruffe of his freshest iollity, was faine to cry..a mercy in printe, may be orderlie driuen to crie more peccauies, then one. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 179 Then were the seculars not onely bound to obey and surcease, but also to cry peccauimus and submit themselues to doe such penance as [etc.]. 1616J. Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. xi. 115 ‘Dread Dame’ (quoth shee) ‘because hee cries ‘peccauit’, Wee bothe will sue his special supplicauit’. 1681Baxter Acc. Sherlocke i. 160 A true information and conviction, which may bring me to the most open peccavi or confession. 1730Swift Sheridan's Submission Wks. 1755 IV. i. 259 Now lowly crouch'd, I cry peccavi, And prostrate, supplicate pour ma vie. 1814Mrs. J. West Alicia de Lacy II. 291 Her ears were alternately assailed by the peccavis of penitence, and the well-a-days of love. 1862[see peccation]. |