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单词 peccant
释义 pec·cant
\ˈpekənt\ adjective
Etymology: Latin peccant-, peccans, present participle of peccare to stumble, commit a fault, sin, probably from (assumed) Latin peccus having an injured foot, stumbling, from Latin ped-, pes foot — more at foot
1. : guilty of a moral offense : sinning, corrupt
 < peccant humanity — Saturday Review >
 < imposing severe … discipline in public on peccant parishioners — Times Literary Supplement >
 < peccant corporations — Times Literary Supplement >
2. : violating a principle or rule (as of taste or propriety) : faulty
 < intervene to save the peccant poet — George Saintsbury >
3. : diseased, unwholesome
 < by the lopping of a peccant member the body is saved from decay — John Austin >
 < capable of sloughing off its peccant parts — K.L.Bates >
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