Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Liable to sin; subject to sin.
Wiktionary
- adj. Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. liable to sin
Etymologies
- From Latin peccare ("to sin"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Leon was amused and fascinated by Buddy Hamstra, "that poor peccable great man," he called him.”
“Impeccably tailored, barbered, and mustached in the manner of a young town squire, Charley boarded the train and shrank back at the sight of his highly peccable guest.”
“We submit that even those who impeach the Deity for opening the door to sin would on second thoughts confess that morally free -- and therefore peccable -- beings stand on a higher level than marionettes, however faultlessly contrived to perform certain evolutions.”
“He had hated Bassett for that; but it was not for the peccable Thatcher to point a mocking finger at”
“Hebrews expressly taught that Christ was peccable, in that He was tempted "in all points" as are the rest of mankind.”
“Our Lord was sinless yet peccable; He had the capacity, the ability to sin had He willed so to do.”
“But peccable and rough though the members of this royal house may have been, very few of them were without the governing faculty.”
“Of course there are one or two mistakes, -- stage machinists, after all, are built of peccable clay, -- but these occur so seldom that one can sit with a feeling of security that is not possible at Covent Garden.”
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“The same old French waiters stood here and there about, each with impeccable apron and very peccable shoes, as is the wont of all waiters.”
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“In his thought at that sharp moment he blasphemed even against all that had been left of his faith in the peccable Master.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peccable’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The Request Line
This is the place to add words you'd like Charles Harrington Elster to pronounce for you!
swingeing, affiant, dahlia, hydrangea, re, clematis, Nabokov, casu marzu, schadenfreudgeon, nefarious, mewl, manteion and 170 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Smart Words
polysemy, dichotomy, metonymy, parapraxis, synecdoche, prosopopeia, mimesis, schadenfreude, pulchritudinous, neolithic, limn, phantasmagoric and 138 more...
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Prosie: How I Met My Wife
by Jack Winter
Published 25 July 1994, The New Yorker
It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and conso...requited, committal, at a godly hour, defatigable, to much avail, choate, advertently, nomer, up to some good, savory character, mayed, bunk a few myths and 52 more...
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Words.
W o r d s.
solace, andante, rueful, peccable, feign, deprehend, coarse, longueur, saudade, wanderlust, oblivion, inure and 30 more...
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sans prefix
cumber, fatigable, wieldy, ruly, prandial, humously, combobulate, couth, crepit, dain, prave, ert and 25 more...
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My word's
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Not used enough
Words that I think need to be used more often
reckon, waft, disconsolate, moxie, fey, quotidian, zounds, corpulent, garish, peccable
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sounds good to me
peccable, succinct, jarring, murmur, delectable, languid, guttural, resonance, ineffable, evoke
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