peccancy

All which he concludes with mentioning the waies and remedies to cure the manifold peccancy of this juyce by Evacuations and Alterations.

With regard to his peccancy I will not attempt, sir, to offer any palliation beyond the expression of my belief, that the tobacco was taken without any notion of the offence he was committing; in proof of which, I may mention, sir, the absence of any concealment on his part, when you came to the store.

Antonyms: complex, complicated, intricate, artful, crafty, elaborate. simpleton, n. dolt, dunce, numskull, lackbrain, oaf, witling, fool. simulate, v. pretend, feign. simulation, n. pretense, feint, feigning, affectation. simultaneous, a. contemporaneous, synchronal, synchronous. sin, n. iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency, peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness.

An act is demoralizing or degrading in proportion as the perpetrator thereof considers it criminal, as it lowers his self-respect; and men regard their crinolinic peccancy as a venial fault, while women consider such lapses on the part of their sex as grievous sin; hence the lightning of lust scarce blackens the pillar while it shatters the vase.

Suppose, again, that one proposes to deal with the peccancy of women from the earliest times, it is hard to find a lady, even one whose name has hitherto gleamed lurid in history, to whom some modern writer has not contrived by chapter and verse to apply a coat of whitewash.