What is "sin"

Sin \Sin\, adv., prep., & conj. Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.
--Chaucer.

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.]

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. [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.

Sin \Sin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See Sin, n.]

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.

   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.

Old English synn "moral wrongdoing, injury, mischief, enmity, feud, guilt, crime, offense against God, misdeed," from Proto-Germanic *sun(d)jo- "sin" (cognates: Old Saxon sundia, Old Frisian sende, Middle Dutch sonde, Dutch zonde, German Sünde "sin, transgression, trespass, offense," extended forms), probably ultimately "it is true," i.e. "the sin is real" (compare Gothic sonjis, Old Norse sannr "true"), from PIE *snt-ya-, a collective form from *es-ont- "becoming," present participle of root *es- "to be" (see is).\n

\nThe semantic development is via notion of "to be truly the one (who is guilty)," as in Old Norse phrase verð sannr at "be found guilty of," and the use of the phrase "it is being" in Hittite confessional formula. The same process probably yielded the Latin word sons (genitive sontis) "guilty, criminal" from present participle of sum, esse "to be, that which is." Some etymologists believe the Germanic word was an early borrowing directly from the Latin genitive. Also see sooth.\n

\nSin-eater is attested from 1680s. To live in sin "cohabit without marriage" is from 1838; used earlier in a more general sense. Ice hockey slang sin bin "penalty box" is attested from 1950.

Old English syngian "to commit sin, transgress, err," from synn (see sin (n.)); the form influenced by the noun. Compare Old Saxon sundion, Old Frisian sendigia, Middle Dutch sondighen, Dutch zondigen, Old High German sunteon, German sündigen "to sin." Form altered from Middle English sunigen by influence of the noun.

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context theology English) A violation of God's will or religious law. 2 A misdeed. n. 1 (context theology English) A violation of God's will or religious law. 2 A misdeed. vb. (context intransitive theology English) To commit a sin. Etymology 2

alt. 1 A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; (lang und sc=Hebr ש שׂ) 2 A letter of the Arabic alphabet; (lang und sc=Arab س) n. 1 A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; (lang und sc=Hebr ש שׂ) 2 A letter of the Arabic alphabet; (lang und sc=Arab س)

1. n. estrangement from god [syn: sinfulness, wickedness]

2. an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will [syn: sinning]

3. ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle [syn: sine]

4. (Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

5. the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

6. violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin" [syn: hell]

7. [also: sinning, sinned]

1. v. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law [syn: transgress, trespass]

2. commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" [syn: blunder, boob, goof]

3. [also: sinning, sinned]

Şin (also, Shin) is a village and municipality in the Shaki Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,432.

Sin ( Akkadian: ) or Nanna ( Sumerian: ) was the god of the moon in the Mesopotamian mythology of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with Semitic Sin. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sin's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north.

A sin is a morally wrong act.

Sin may also refer to:

"Sin" is the third single by American artist Nine Inch Nails from the album Pretty Hate Machine. Released in October 1990, the song peaked at #35 in the UK Singles Chart.

"Sin" has been commonly a staple of Nine Inch Nails live performances for many years; setlist.fm lists it as the artist's eighth most played live song. Its versions on the single differentiate heavily from the album cut, with more an EBM sound with distorted vocals and alternate instrumentation that became the foundation for its many live renditions, as opposed to the Synthpop style featured on Pretty Hate Machine.

"(It’s No) Sin" is a 1951 popular song with music by George Hoven and lyrics by Chester R. Shull. Popular recordings of the song were made by The Four Aces and Eddy Howard.

The recording by Eddy Howard was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5711. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 14, 1951, and lasted 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.

The recording by The Four Aces was released by Victoria Records as catalog number 101. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 7, 1951, and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at #4. This was The Four Aces' first charting record and led to their receiving a contract with a major company, Decca.

This song should not be confused with "It's a Sin", another popular song of the same era.

Knud Pfeiffer wrote the Danish lyrics. The Danish title is "Er det synd". Raquel Rastenni with Radiodansekorkesteret recorded it in Copenhagen in 1952. The song was released on the 78 rpm record His Master's Voice X 8043.

The song was revived in 1964 by The Duprees, a group that made a number of recordings of 1950s hits.

Sin (Sinthea Schmidt) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as the daughter of the Red Skull.

Sin, in comics, may refer to:

• Sin (Marvel Comics), the daughter of the Red Skull.
• Sin (DC Comics), an adopted daughter of Black Canary.

Sin is a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Birds of Prey #92 (May, 2006). She was created by Gail Simone (writer) and Paulo Siqueira (artist).

Sin is the fifth studio recording from Mother Superior and the first of two to be produced by MC5 legend Wayne Kramer.

Sin was a 1915 American silent drama film written and directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara. It was produced by Fox Film Corporation and shot at the Fox Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The film is now considered to be lost.

SIN is an original English-language manga authored by Drake Tsui, published in 2012 by MangaMagazine.net.

Sin is a 2007 novel in stories by the Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin.

This novel was published in 2007 in Vargius (Russia).

Sin: A Novel, also known as Sins, is a 1973 politico- historical novel written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José. This particular work of literature features the History of the Philippines, for the most part spanning the twentieth century, through the eyes of the “ amoral” Don Carlos Corbello, a wealthy patriarch also known by the moniker “C.C.”.

Being a part of that era, Corbello reaps most of what he sowed when he was already on his “deathbed”. During this time, Corbello recalled the loves of his life, those that he had lost and longed for. A literary account of the “steady degradation” of the Philippines, Sin was described by Pico Iyer of The New York Times Book Review as a book " ... set in the Philippines, this amorality tale shadows a rake's impenitent progress ..."