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Definition of Peccable
1. Adjective. Liable to sin. "A frail and peccable mortal"
Definition of Peccable
1. a. Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
Definition of Peccable
1. Adjective. Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peccable
1. liable to sin [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peccable
Literary usage of Peccable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Defences of Unitarianism for the Year 1786- by Joseph Priestley (1788)
"... which makes Chrift to be a mere Man, naturally as fallible, and as peccable,
as other Men. ... Chrift to be naturally peccable and fallible. ..."
2. The Historie and Life of King James the Sext: Being an Account of the by John Colville, James, Thomas Thomson (1825)
"... maters wer fund : And so the Parliament hous was maid mair peccable. The Erie
of Northumberland attented for the same, ..."
3. Psychologia: Or, An Account of the Nature of the Rational Soul: Or, An by John Broughton (1703)
"... is, That our Thoughts are Morally peccable. I might fay moft of them, the
Tendency of our Nature confi- der'd, will be found Morally Evil. ..."
4. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"Now it is clear, that human nature, that of Adam before his fall, was created
both sinless and peccable. If Christ's Human Nature was not like ours, but, ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1889)
"The human nature, on the contrary, is both temptable and peccable. ... Consequently,
Christ, while "having a peccable nature in his constitution, ..."
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