April 25, 2009 - peccant

[roque.livejournal.com]

peccant (pek-uhnt)
(adjective. RELATED: peccancy, peccantness, nouns; peccantly, adverb)

Definitions:
1. sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
2. violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong.
(See 1828 definition)

Origin:
Latin peccāns, peccant-, present participle of peccāre, "to sin"

Example:
Consequently, the brilliant (if morally peccant) young politician from Arkansas discovered Washington DC to be, in his own words, "a goddamned jungle, a sick perverted place." --Reviews, Books - The Independent: "The Clinton Wars" by Sidney Blumenthal

Comments

[oldsneakers.livejournal.com]

Hello there, Mary -- -ia. 8D

[roque.livejournal.com]

:D if my account were currently in a paid statues, I could reply with any one of 100 Mary/Maria icons...

[oldsneakers.livejournal.com]

fffff it's so hard to choose just six for my little basic one. I envy you. 8X Maria surprised me by becoming one of my favorite characters in SH2. I'm morbidly fascinated by James. He shows just how low and how high people can go, their potential, which is really interesting to me. I'm writing a paper on the monstrous feminine themes of SH2 now, actually. XJ

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Peccant is a present tense (of some declension, it's been a while since I did Latin) of Peccavi, which is a past tense (of some declension) admission of sin or guilt.

Which astute reader may remember (http://community.livejournal.com/1word1day/189757.html) being posted early this year.

[roque.livejournal.com]

neato! I'd forgotten about that form.