Sin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate.
  • n. Theology Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.
  • n. Theology A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.
  • n. Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong.
  • verb-intransitive. To violate a religious or moral law.
  • verb-intransitive. To commit an offense or violation.
  • n. The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
  • abbreviation. sine
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A symbol of the trigonometric function sine.
  • n. A violation of God's will or religious law.
  • n. A misdeed.
  • v. To commit a sin.
  • n. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
  • n. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor.
  • n. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
  • n. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God. (Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism.)
  • n. A serious fault; an error; a transgression: as, a sin against good taste.
  • n. An incarnation or embodiment of sin.
  • n. Synonyms and Wrong, Iniquity, etc. See crime.
  • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
  • n. estrangement from god
  • n. an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
  • v. commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
  • n. (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
  • n. the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  • n. ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
  • n. violent and excited activity
    • Equivalent
    mortal sins   
    Verb Form
    sinned    sinning    sins   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    breach    break    violate    go against    offend    infract    transgress    semitic deity    letter    letter of the alphabet   
    Variant
    sinned    sinning    since   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wickedness    iniquity    crime    wrong    misdemeanor    trespass    transgress   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Allin    Atkin    Begin    Berlin    Boleyn    Bryn    Chin    Finn    Flynn    Gwyn   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crime    vice    evil    passion    misery    weakness    error    guilt    act    danger   
     
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