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peccants

peccants is the plural of peccant.

Meaning of peccant

Noun

peccant (plural peccants)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) An offender; also, a sinner.
    • Yet this conceitedneſſe and Itch of being taken for a Counſellour, maketh more Reprovers, than Peccants in the vvorld.1654, Richard Whitlock, Ζωοτομία [Zōotomía], or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, page 388

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Questions about peccants

What is peccants the plural of?
Peccants is the plural of peccant.

Words near peccants in the dictionary

  1. peccancies
  2. peccancy
  3. peccans
  4. peccant
  5. peccantly
  6. peccants
  7. peccaries
  8. peccary
  9. peccata clamantia
  10. peccatum mutum
  11. peccavi

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