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  1. Unknown's avatar

    I laughed at it too.
    And within a day of seeing that ‘impeccable’ cartoon, I read this passage, from Maria Irene Fornes’s short play Springtime.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    I suppose peccable is from Latin “peccata” or sins, as in “Qui tollis peccata mundi.”

  3. Unknown's avatar

    MiB, yes, that is what I get from dictionaries too.

    If you know some old-fashioned terminology in logic, you will be familiar with modus ponens as a basic rule of inference. There is a slightly less frequently encountered variation (involving negation) called modus tollens, and the tollens there is, I think I have seen confirmed, related to the tollis in your “who taketh away the sins of the world.”

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    “Yes, you’re dethpicable… and picable… and you’re very definitely dethpicable.”
    — D. Duck

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