impeccancy

English

Noun

impeccancy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The quality of being sinless.

   Synonym: sinlessness

   • 1628, Jos[eph] Hall, “The Newnesse of the Uniuersall Head-ship of the Bishop of Rome”, in The Olde Religion: A Treatise, wherin is Laid Downe the True State of the Difference betwixt the Reformed, and Romane Church; […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby] for Nathaniell Butter and Richard Hawkings, →OCLC, section II (The Newnesse of Challenged Infallibilitie), page 179:

     Either all ſtories mocke vs, or elſe this paraſiticall dreame of impeccancie in judgement, is a mere ſtranger: […]

Related terms

• impeccant

References

• “impeccancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.