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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sinner
noun
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▪ After this, no one could call Zacchaeus a sinner again.
▪ As a repentant sinner I pledge to swear off this hallucinogen.
▪ No longer need he envy his long-dead friend, Martin Fenlon, for having saved the soul of an unrepentant sinner.
▪ Or, like any fallible human sinner, was he desperately constructing an armour of simplicity about his devious shiftings?
▪ People who engage in vice are sinners, not criminals.
▪ The Church could not allow sinners to perish without seeing the evil of their ways.
▪ Their office was to pursue and punish sinners.
▪ What we are is a nation of small-time sinners, which is not per se unusual nor even particularly bad.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinner

Sinner \Sin"ner\, n. One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

Sinner

Sinner \Sin"ner\, v. i. To act as a sinner. [Humorous]

Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sinner

mid-14c., agent noun from sin (v.). Old English had synngiend in this sense.

Wiktionary
sinner

n. a person who has sinned

WordNet
sinner

n. a person who sins (without repenting) [syn: evildoer]

Wikipedia
Sinner (Drowning Pool album)

Sinner is the debut studio album by the heavy metal band Drowning Pool. The album is the band's most popular album, being certified platinum in the same year that it was released in. This was due at least in part to " Bodies" which remains the band's most well-known song. This is the only studio album by the band to feature original lead singer Dave Williams. While touring in support of Sinner, he died on August 14, 2002 from cardiomyopathy. The album debuted at #14 on the Billboard 200 chart. Drowning Pool released a reissue of the album called the "Unlucky 13th Anniversary Edition" in 2014. The album was put at no. 25 on Metal Descent's list "The 25 Best Alternative Metal Albums".

Sinner (band)

Sinner are a German heavy metal band formed by vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner in 1982 (who later joined Primal Fear). They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene. Their latest album, One Bullet Left, was released in 2011.

Sinner (Joan Jett album)

Sinner is the eleventh studio album by the American hard rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released June 13, 2006, by Blackheart Records Group. While most of the contents previously appeared on the Japan-only release Naked (2004), some in different mixes, it is her first record of new material released in the United States since Pure and Simple in 1994. Singles released include "A.C.D.C." (originally by Sweet) and "Riddles" (Jett's first-ever political song), which is a new version of "Right in the Middle" from Naked with different lyrics.

An edited "clean" version was also released. The CD also includes enhanced content, consisting of a lyrics sheet (in PDF format) and a video of the recording of "A.C.D.C.".

Sinner (film)

Sinner is a 2007 drama film directed by Marc Benardout. It stars Nick Chinlund, Georgina Cates, Michael E. Rodgers, Tom Wright, and Brad Dourif.

The film debuted on Showtime on April 3, 2009 and was released on DVD in June 2009 in North America by Matson Films.

Sinner

Sinner may refer to:

  • A person who commits a sin
Sinner (Neil Finn song)

"Sinner" is the debut solo single by New Zealand singer/songwriter, Neil Finn, released in 1998.

An acoustic version of the song was performed live and released on Radio Austin 107.1 KGSR's "Broadcasts Vol. 6" album.

Sinner (Douglass novel)

Sinner is the first novel in The Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy by Sara Douglass. In the United States it is also considered the fourth in The Wayfarer Redemption sextet. It is followed by Pilgrim and concludes in Crusader.

Sinner (Drowning Pool song)

"Sinner" is a song by the rock band Drowning Pool and is from their debut album Sinner. Serving as the first track on the album, the song also was released as the third single from the album.

The track served as the theme song of the film The One, starring Jet Li.

This was also the theme song of WWE Vengeance 2001.

Sinner (Rulli book)

Sinner: The Catholic Guy's Funny, Feeble Attempts to Be a Faithful Catholic is a book written by American Catholic radio host Lino Rulli, published in 2011. Rulli's sequel to Sinner, Saint: Why I Should Be Canonized Right Away, was released on September 3, 2013.

Sinner (Aaron Lewis album)

Sinner is the upcoming second solo studio album by Aaron Lewis from the American rock band Staind. It will be released in September 16, 2016, through Dot Records. The first single, "That Ain't Country", was released on June 17, 2016, the same day as the album announcement. A tour titled the "Sinner Tour" will follow.

Usage examples of "sinner".

As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.

The torments of the Third and Fourth Hells are also relatively light, and are designed for such sinners as bad bureaucrats, backbiters, forgers, coiners, misers, dishonest tradesmen, and blasphemers.

His plan of salvation was so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous sea, it could avail no sinner but himself, who bestrode it triumphantly, and hurled anathemas against the wretches whom he saw struggling with the billows of eternal death.

Publican and the masochist try to transform the ambiguity of human condition into a duality: sinner and judge, breast and hand.

I would explain how unhappily I was influenced by the errors and misdoings of my brethren, that I may make my apostacy from Christ intelligible, I have no desire to make the impression that all with whom I came in uncomfortable collision were great sinners, while I was a meek and faultless saint.

In defiance of monition and in spite of resolution, the primrose path is trodden by all sorts and conditions of men, sinners no doubt, but not necessarily abstractions of sin, and to assert the contrary makes for cant and not for righteousness.

Taking my walk alone, and thinking of the dreadfulness of Almighty power, and how that, if it was not tempered and restrained by infinite goodness, and wisdom, and mercy, the miserable sinner, man, and all things that live, would be in a woeful state, I drew near the beild where old Widow Mirkland lived by herself, who was grand-mother to Jock Hempy, the ramplor lad, that was the second who took on for a soldier.

Whenever the sinner repents, reforms, puts himself in a right attitude, God is waiting to pardon and bless him, the sun shines and the happy heart is glad as at first, the cloudy screen of sin and fear and retributive alienation being removed.

Therefore sinners eat the body of Christ sacramentally, and not the just only.

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.

They become part of a new sanctuary, in which God is to be worshipped, where the Gospel will be preached, where penitent sinners will find the Christ-Saviour, where sorrowing ones will be comforted.

To me, for one, it would be eminently painful to think--what doubtless would occur if the motion is adopted--that within a week of his entrance into the asylum of the society named in it, this diminutive and unknowing sinner should go through the farce of a supposititious admission into the Church of Christ.

Soon the sinners in the crowd began to sweat and squirm in their seats and after about an hour of ranting and getting everybody all worked up and scared to death about going to hell he finally called out for all the unsaved to come forward, confess their sins to the Almighty God, and be saved from eternal damnation.

I am a sinner, and I seek Forgiveness and help, by whatso means I can regain the joy of peace with God.

I looked around, and there by all the saints and all the sinners was the Americano Bar.