Sin
Sin , adv., prep., & conj.
Old form of Since. [Obsolete or Provincial English & Scottish]
Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.
Sin , noun
[Old English sinne, Anglo-Saxon synn, syn; akin to Dutch zonde, Old Saxon sundia, Old High German sunta, German sunde, Icelandic, Danish & Swedish synd, Latin sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the present participle of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Compare 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. [Rare]
Thy ambition,
Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
Of noble Buckingham.
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.
Collocations (4)
Actual sin or Canonical sins or Original sin or Venial sin , See under Actual, Canonical, etc.
Deadly sins or Mortal sins (Roman Catholic Church) , 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 , intransitive verb
[Old English sinnen, singen, sinegen, Anglo-Saxon 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.