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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.
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Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
--John viii.
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Sin is the transgression of the law. --1 John iii.
4.
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I think 't no sin.
To cozen him that would unjustly win. --Shak.
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Enthralled
By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. --Milton.
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2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a
misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
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I grant that poetry's a crying sin. --Pope.
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3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
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He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
--2 Cor. v.
21.
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4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]
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Thy ambition,
Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
Of noble Buckingham. --Shak.
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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.
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{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.
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Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See {Crime}.
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Sin \Sin\, adv., prep., & conj.
Old form of {Since}. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Sin that his lord was twenty year of age. --Chaucer.
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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.]
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.
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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. --Ps. li. 4.
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All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
--Rom. iii.
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2. To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an
offense; to trespass; to transgress.
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I am a man
More sinned against than sinning. --Shak.
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Who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the eternal cause. --Pope.
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