sin

[Sin]

(Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

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Old form of Since.

Noun
an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God''s will

Noun
violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"

Noun
estrangement from god

Noun
the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Noun
(Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

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Noun
ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

Verb
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

Verb
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview"

adv., prep., & conj.
Old form of Since.

n.
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; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

n.
An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

n.
A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

n.
An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

n.
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.

n.
To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

Sin

Sin , adv., prep., & conj. Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.]

Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.

Sin

Sin, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s'81nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.] 1. 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; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Sin is the transgression of the law.

I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win.

Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.

2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

I grant that poetry's a crying sin.

3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.

4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]

Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.

&hand; Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc. -- Deadly, ∨ Mortal, sins (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. -- Sin eater, 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. -- Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Syn. -- Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime.

Sin

Sin, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See Sin, n.] 1. 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.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned.

All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

2. To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

I am a man More sinned against than sinning.

Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause.

Old form of Since.

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; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

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.

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Usage Examples

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Misspelled Form

sin, asin, wsin, esin, dsin, xsin, zsin, ain, win, ein, din, xin, zin, sain, swin, sein, sdin, sxin, szin, suin, s8in, s9in, soin, sjin, skin, sun, s8n, s9n, son, sjn, skn, siun, si8n, si9n, sion, sijn, sikn, sibn, sihn, sijn, simn, si n, sib, sih, sij, sim, si , sinb, sinh, sinj, sinm, sin .

Other Usage Examples

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!