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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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peccant
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Definition:1. (obsolete) Unhealthy; causing disease.2. sinful3. Wrong; defective; faulty.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Of course everybody knows the Young People's Monitor. It is one of the most successful among the penny weeklies, and in addition to its sensational stories and moral essays, it gives advice gratis to all and sundry in its correspondence columns upon every conceivable subject that our common peccant or ignorant humanity can possibly inquire about.
Grant Allen. The Beckoning Hand and other stories
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