Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation sine
- noun One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter shin by having a dot above the left side of the letter.
- noun A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate.
- noun Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.
- noun A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.
- noun Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong.
- intransitive verb To violate a religious or moral law.
- idiom (live in sin) To cohabit in a sexual relationship without being married.
- idiom (as sin) Completely or extremely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To commit a sin; depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God; violate the divine law by actual transgression or by the neglect or non-observance of its injunctions.
- To commit an error or a fault; be at fault; transgress an accepted standard of propriety or taste; offend; followed by against before an object.
- To do or commit, contrary to right or rule: with a cognate object.
- Also used impersonally, as in the following quotation:
- To influence, force, or drive by sinning to some course of procedure: followed by an adverbial phrase noting the direction of the result effected.
- Same as
since . - An abbreviation of
sine , 2. - noun Any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God. (Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism.)
- noun A serious fault; an error; a transgression: as, a sin against good taste.
- noun An incarnation or embodiment of sin.
- noun Synonyms and Wrong, Iniquity, etc. See
crime .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. Old form of
since . - intransitive verb To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by
against . - intransitive verb To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
- noun Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity.
- noun An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor.
- noun A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- noun rare An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- noun See under
Actual ,Canonical , etc. - noun (R. C. Ch.) willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from
vental sins . Theseven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. - noun a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.
- noun a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics A symbol of the
trigonometric function sine . - noun A letter of the
Hebrew alphabet;שׂ - noun A letter of the
Arabic alphabet;س - noun theology A
violation of God's will orreligious law . - noun A
misdeed . - verb intransitive, theology To commit a sin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- noun estrangement from god
- noun an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- verb commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- noun (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
- noun the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- noun ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- noun violent and excited activity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_Oh! this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold -- Yet now, if than wilt forgive their sin_
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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I know all about Nancy, and her first husband and how he left her, and she thought he was dead, and married a good man, and when that worthless devil came back she thought she was living in sin with that good man -- in _sin_!
The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878
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The common idea, then, is, that the justice of God consists in punishing sin: it is in the hope of giving a larger idea of the justice of God in punishing sin that I ask, '_Why is God bound to punish sin_?'
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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'Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of _sin_;' the revised version gives, 'Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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And sin is _sin_ -- it is rebellion against the King of Heaven.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Nobbs did not know at that time, though he learned it afterwards, that safety from the drink-sin -- as from all other sin -- lies not in strong-man resolutions, or Temperance pledges, though both are useful aids, but in Jesus, the Saviour _from sin_.
The Island Queen 1859
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Lastly, and above all, set under the feet of the statue of Christ Himself, are the lion and dragon; the images of Carnal sin, or _Human sin_, as distinguished from the Spiritual and Intellectual sin of Pride, by which the angels also fell.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859
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The sin of thoughtlessness shall be beaten with fewer stripes than the sin of deliberation, -- but it shall be _beaten_, and therefore it is _sin_.
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In the second place, we see from the subject, that _thoughtlessness in sin will never excuse sin_.
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It is not true that men love and commit sin _as sin_.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843
oroboros commented on the word sin
If you believe that by being human you have sinned, you should take it upon yourself to accept every person’s calls from telemarketers.
--Jan Cox
June 17, 2007
lampbane commented on the word sin
Singapore Changi Airport.
October 22, 2008