- sinfulness
- pl. -·cies a sin
Origin of peccancy
Ecclesiastical Late Latin peccantia from peccare, to sinpeccancy
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Noun
(plural peccancies)
- (rare) Faultiness, a state of being flawed.
- A sin or moral transgression.
- (uncountable) Sinfulness.
Origin
From post-classical Latin peccantia, from Latin peccÄns, present participle of peccÅ (“to sin").
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