peccability

His sinlessness was at first only the _relative_ sinlessness of Adam before the fall, which implies the necessity of trial and temptation, and the peccability, or the possibility of the fall.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

At times Aristotle seems to imply what the Pelagians taught later, that the passions may be trained so as never to offer temptation; as a fact, however, he fully allows elsewhere for the abiding peccability of man.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

A question deserving some attention in this connection is that of the peccability or impeccability of Christ -- the question as to whether He was capable of sinning.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

"What fun it would be to try the experiment of a saint's peccability on some living subject," said Bruce.

Julian Home 1867

He could no more deny peccability to such creatures than he could deny the properties of the circle to a circle; and if he could not prevent such a thing, it is surely very absurd to ask why he permitted it.

A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843

Not, however, that I was then to learn that clergymen are made of the same flesh and blood as other people, and perhaps lack one small safeguard which the rest of us possess, because they are aware of their own peccability, and therefore cannot look up to the clerical class for the proof of the possibility of a pure life on earth, with such reverential confidence as we are prone to do.

Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Its darkness, its hardness, its forced uprightness, and the place in which you find it, may commend it to you; give me rather some weakness and peccability, with vital warmth and human sympathies.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

God putteth no trust in his holy ones, and he chargeth his angels with folly (Job iv. 18), that is, with weakness and peccability.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721