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   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, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. sünde, 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.]
    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. 34.
   
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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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   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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   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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   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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   ☞ 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, 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 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. 23.
   
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   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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