Usually means: Guilty of moral or legal wrongdoing.
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  1. peccant: Merriam-Webster
  2. peccant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. peccant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. peccant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. peccant: Vocabulary.com
  6. peccant: Wordnik
  7. peccant: Wiktionary
  8. peccant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. peccant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. peccant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. peccant: Dictionary.com
  12. Peccant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. peccant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. peccant: Rhymezone
  15. Peccant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. peccant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. peccant: FreeDictionary.org
  18. peccant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. peccant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. peccant: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. peccant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Peccant: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. peccant: Medical dictionary
  5. Peccant: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. peccant: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (peccant)

adjective:  Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.
adjective:  Of an action or thing: causing offence or sin; offensive, sinful.
adjective:  (pathology, historical, also figurative) Especially of humours of the body: diseased, unhealthy; also, causing disease.
adjective:  (obsolete) Offending a norm, a rule, etc.; defective, faulty, wrong.
noun:  (obsolete) An offender; also, a sinner.

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