Crossword-Solution: PECCANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Peccant | a. | Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. |
| Peccant | a. | Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. |
| Peccant | a. | Wrong; defective; faulty. |
| Peccant | n. | An offender. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PECCANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| offending | 3 answers |
| Sinful | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PECCANT (5)
But let us call to Synod all the Blest Through Heav’ns wide bounds; from them I will not hide My judgments, how with Mankind I proceed, As how with peccant Angels late they saw; And in thir state, though firm, stood more confirmd.
Nothing could be conceived more excellent as a weapon against many of those _peccant humours_ that we have been railing against in the jeremiad of our last ‘College Paper’—particularly in the field of intellect.
Ella himself was in a hypercritical state; nothing would go smoothly; and the piano was always (according to him) the peccant instrument.
This I regard as a good sign; the doctors telling me that it is the safest development of peccant humours; and I think my chest is less tormenting and oppressed than I have known it for some years.
Her rudder was broken, her wheel carried away; within she was flooded with water from the peccant hawse-pipes; she had just made the signal "fires extinguished," and lay helpless, awaiting the inevitable end.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1988–2011).