Sin /(?)/

Sin

adv., prep., & conj.
  1. Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
    Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.

Sin

n.
  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.
    — John viii. 34.
    Sin is the transgression of the law.
    — 1 John iii. 4.
    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.
    — 2 Cor. v. 21.
  4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]
    Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.

Phrases & Compounds
Actual sin
See under Actual, Canonical, etc.
Deadly sins
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.

Sin

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Sinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning

  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.
    — Ps. li. 4.
    All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
    — Rom. iii. 23.
  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.