peccancy

Instead, I want you to contemplate your very being, search deep, scour your skin of all its peccancy, and return to me with wide eyes and a new outlook.

My Heaven is a State of Great Joy, Satisfaction, and The Beatles pabba 2008

Lest I be accused of over-promoting my own work surely a permissible peccancy on my own blog, in any event, I should also note that if you dislike The Dog of the North, it will also, I suspect, be for reasons of voice.

Archive 2008-02-01 Tim Stretton 2008

Lest I be accused of over-promoting my own work surely a permissible peccancy on my own blog, in any event, I should also note that if you dislike The Dog of the North, it will also, I suspect, be for reasons of voice.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

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.

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

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.

She Stands Accused 1935

There are a great many called up for this particular form of peccancy, you observe; even Master David has to lay aside his Psalm Book, and go forward with the others for chastisement.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

In a moment Louis, with his inexorable eye for detail, realized the peccancy.

The Sacrificial Altar 1916

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.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Imputations upon wives: horrible exultation at the universal peccancy of husbands.

Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

Imputations upon wives: horrible exultation at the universal peccancy of husbands.

Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868