The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s["u]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.]
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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.
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An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
I grant that poetry's a crying sin.
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A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
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An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]
Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.
--Shak.Note: 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.
Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc.
Deadly sins, or Mortal 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.
Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mortal sin English)
Usage examples of "mortal sins".
Watergate and, most recently, the Iran-Contra affair exhibit those mortal sins of venality and immorality which are the signs of advancing evil.
But the sacred right of the husband was invariably maintained, to deliver his name and family from the disgrace of adultery: the list of mortal sins, either male or female, was curtailed and enlarged by successive regulations, and the obstacles of incurable impotence, long absence, and monastic profession, were allowed to rescind the matrimonial obligation.
Place your hand upon the pommel and swear that you harbor in your soul none of the mortal sins I have just cataloged.
Transform their venial sins into mortal ones, their mortal sins into no mere turn of phrase.
In the end, he thought he had isolated the two biggies, the two hard and fast mortal sins: suicide and murder.
Suppose that the Supreme Being, after having created the world and fertilized chaos, had paused in the work to spare an angel the tears that might one day flow for mortal sins from her immortal eyes.
They say I have been a wanton, and committed mortal sins, which is why the Monsignor came from Philadelphia.
And she never understood why music and dancing were mortal sins, while getting beastly drunk and whipping the clothes off serving girls or setting fire to a dwarf were harmless pastimes.
I don't think you believed in anything but your work, and in your ability to use the lunar vacuum and its low gravity to create strangely unique crystals, but if you committed mortal sins either by not believing or by renouncing the gift of life, both you and God must forgive the one whose hesitancy may have greased your slide to .
That is to say, they have reserved to themselves in confession, all, or at least some, of the mortal sins which are secret, so that no brother, on his obedience and on pain of the ban, can absolve another from these sins.
I beg you to repent and confess, that your mortal sins may be blotted out—.