sin

A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ

Noun lifestyle, religion

  1. A violation of divine will or religious law.
    • As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.
    • Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in...

    Synonyms: adharma ithm haram

  2. Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.

    Synonyms: baseness degeneracy turpitude corruption defilement degradation depravation depravedness depravity impurity iniquity lewdity malignity misdoing misguilt obliquity peccability perversion pollution pravity sin sinfulness vitiation wickedness

  3. A misdeed or wrong.
    • The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the...

    Synonyms: offence misdoing crime delict delinquency error malfeasance misdeed misdemeanor offense peccadillo sin tort tortfeasance transgression veniality wrong wrongdoing

  4. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
    • For he hath made him to be ſinne for vs, who knewe no ſinne,[…] - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 5:21, column 2:
  5. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
    • Thy Ambition / (Thou Scarlet ſinne) robb’d this bewailing Land / Of Noble Buckingham,[…] - 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr....
  6. A flaw or mistake.
    • No movie is without sin.

    Synonyms: deficiency fault defect flaw imperfection shortcoming drawback inadequacy peccadillo sin

  7. sin bin
    • Winger Cheslin Kolbe, sitting with his jersey over his head in the sin after a yellow card at the death, was probably the sight of millions of South Africans around the country who had their hearts in their mouth as...

Origin

From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from , from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sände, Säände (“sin”), West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), German Sünde (“sin”), Luxembourgish Sënd, Sënn (“sin”), Vilamovian zynd (“sin”) Yiddish זינד (zind, “sin”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish synd (“sin”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja, “truth”), Latin sont-, sons (“sinful, guilty, criminal”).

Forms

sins sinne synne

Derived

actual sin archsin as sin birth sin cardinal sin deadly sin eternal sin guilty as sin hate the sin but love the sinner let he who is without sin cast the first stone let him that is without sin cast the first stone let him who is without sin cast the first stone like sin live in sin love the sinner but hate the sin man of sin mortal sin original antigenic sin original as sin original sin philosophical sin sin bin sin-binning sin-eater

Noun Entry 2

  1. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
  2. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

Origin

Modification of shin.

Forms

sins seen sīn

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).

Forms

sins

Verb

  1. To commit a sin.

Forms

sins sinning sinned sinne synne

Derived

as much sinning as sinned against outsin sinner sinningly sinningness unsin