English
Etymology
From post-classical peccantia, from Latin
peccans, present participle of pecco.
Noun
- Faultiness, a state of being flawed.
- A sin or moral transgression.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience,
Folio Society 2008, p. 227:
- For it is then as if our tears broke through an inveterate
inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral
stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and
open to every nobler leaning.
- Sinfulness.
- Unhealthiness.