peccable

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Indeed, we very much question whether a writer, who carries with him a just feeling of his allegiance -- a truly loyal writer -- can lawfully suppose his sovereign, the reader, peccable or capable of error; and whether there is not even a shade of impiety in conceiving him liable to the affections of sleep, or of yawning.

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  1. Liable to sin; subject to sin. In a low noisy smoky world like ours, Where Adam's sin made peccable his seed ! Browning, Ring and Book, II. 107.

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  1. = French peccable = Spanish pecable = Portuguese peccavel = Italian peccabile, from Middle Latin *peccabilis(?), liable to sin or offend, from Latinpeccare, sin: see peccant.
 

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