peccant

• Remonstrances addressed to the Rev. Mr. Engstroem, the secretary of the society, brought voluble protestations of disavowal and disapproval; but as the peccant agents were continued in their employment, the apologies were of small value. —  Annie Besant
• Yesterday, he by severe cross-examination extracted from Lord MORLEY admission of personal knowledge of what are known as the peccant paragraphs in document handed on behalf of War Office to General GOUGH What troubled CURZON was apprehension that such admission must necessarily be followed by resignation. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914
• Mrs. Corfield questioned the man in her keen inquisitorial way as to what he was about; and when he told her that the posts were to show "Virginia" now instead of "Andalusia," her great disgust, to judge by the sharp things which she said to him, seemed as if it took in the innocent hand as well as the peccant head. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
• Go shopping with me Ownest own_--and we'll gush as we go Footnote 1: SHENSTONE, not Mr. Punch_, is responsible for the peccant participle THE MODERN NELSON MOTTO.--At the Church Congress. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890
• Remonstrances addressed to the Rev. Mr. Engström, the secretary of the society, brought voluble protestations of disavowal and disapproval; but as the peccant agents were continued in their employment, the apologies were of small value. —  Annie Besant An Autobiography

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