peccavi

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Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci: ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris.

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  1. noun A confession of sin.

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  • The Cardinal Mattei, Archbishop of Ferrara, being brought into his presence, uttered the single word peccavi : the victor was contented with ordering him a penance of seven days' fasting and prayer in a monastery: but he had no intention to forget these occurrences whenever another day of reckoning with the Pope should come. —  The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
  • Confiteor Deo, et Beatae Mariae et omnibus Sanctis, et vobis Fratres, quia peccavi nimis mea culpa per superbiam, cogitatione, locutione, opere et omissione, precor vos orate pro me. —  New Liturgical Movement
  • Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci: ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris 6. —  The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book
  • But it's all one in the Greek Peccavi, peccavi, dies quidem sine lineâ!_" I walked to make calls; got cruelly hot; drank ginger-beer; wrote letters. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
  • If I had never done anything worse than that I shouldn't feel myself called to go upon my knees and cry /peccavi/. —  Love Eternal
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  1. Latin peccāvī, I have sinned, first person sing. perfect tense of peccāre, to sin; see peccable.

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  1. Latin, I have sinned, 1 st person singular preterit indicative active of peccare, sin: see peccant.
 

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