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sinning
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n. an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will [syn: sin ]
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Sinning may refer to: The act of committing a sin (an act that violates a moral rule) A historic district in Oberhausen, Bavaria
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n. The act of committing a sin. vb. (present participle of sin English)
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Sin \Sin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning .] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See Sin , n.] To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression ...
Usage examples of sinning.
Hence, inasmuch as some are brought to this end by sinning, they fall under the rule and government of the devil, and therefore he is called their head.
Thirdly, because by sinning He could afford no example of virtue, since sin is opposed to virtue.
But as long as one is in the act of sinning, one cannot be cleansed from actual sin.
The second reason is taken from the state of man who in sinning subjected himself by his affections to corporeal things.
Neither, therefore, can the sacrament of Baptism give salvation to a man whose will is set on sinning, and hence expels the form of faith.
Therefore, if anyone, while in mortal sin, receives this sacrament, he purchases damnation, by sinning mortally.
Consequently, he seems to be perplexed, and under necessity of sinning, which is not becoming.
Now it is worse to sin in public than in private, both because a public sinner seems to sin more from contempt, and because by sinning he gives scandal to others.
Now, by sinning, man incurs at the same time guilt and the debt of punishment.
A man does not, however, incur ingratitude by committing a venial sin, because by sinning venially man does not act against God, but apart from Him, wherefore venial sins nowise cause the return of sins already forgiven.
They taught that all souls pre existed in a world of pure light, but, sinning through the instigation and craft of demons, they fell, were mixed with darkness and matter, and bound in bodies.
The evil soul, growing ever more evil, getting its habits of vice and passions of iniquity more deeply infixed, and surrounded in the infernal realm with all the incentives to wickedness, will become confirmed in depravity beyond all power of cure, and, sinning forever, be necessarily damned and tortured forever.
Finally, the injustice of the dogma of everlasting punishment is most emphatically shown by the fact that there is no sort of correspondence or possible proportion between the offence and the penalty, between the moment of sinning life and the eternity of suffering death.
These truths he can never repudiate without sinning against reason, first, because reason brought him to this pass where he must believe without the immediate help of reason.
Uncle Tom Sinnings is building a new barn on his place on the Valley Road.