Sin

adv., prep	1.	Old form of Since. Sin that his lord was twenty year of age. - Chaucer.
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. - Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. - Milton.
	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. - Pope.
	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. Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. - Shak. Actual sin See under Actual, Canonical, etc. Deadly 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.
v. i.	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. [imp. & p. p. Sinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning.] 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. - Shak. Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause. - Pope.

Noun	1.	sin - estrangement from god Synonyms: sinfulness, wickedness
	2.	sin - an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will Synonyms: sinning
	3.	sin - ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle Synonyms: sine
	4.	Sin - (Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
	5.	sin - the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
	6.	sin - violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin" Synonyms: hell
Verb	1.	sin - commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law Synonyms: transgress, trespass
	2.	sin - commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" Synonyms: blunder, boob, goof

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