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verb

Sin v. i. (past & past part. sinned; pres. part. sinning)

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." "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."

To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress. "I am a man More sinned against than sinning." "Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sinning" Quotes from Famous Books

... mornings after this I listened to his prayers, which grew more and more earnest and importunate. I could not think he had done any harm with his own will. He must have been more sinned against than sinning. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various

... results, and draw others with him into greater and larger violations of the laws of God and man? These are practical questions. Some temporize with sin and say, "Let us lead outwardly correct lives, but within certain bounds we will do as we please"; hence arises the practice of secret sinning. ...

— Studies in the Life of the Christian • Henry T. Sell

... forgiveness of sins:—(1.) He who keeps on sinning and repenting alternately; (2.) he who sins in a sinless age; (3.) he who sins on purpose to repent; (4.) he who causes the name of God to be blasphemed. The fifth is not given in ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... I a sinning now, uncle Josiah? and a falling? And is everybody a sinning and a falling jest because that one man eat one apple, and fell out of an apple-tree? Say, is it right, uncle Josiah, for you and me, and everybody that is on the earth, to keep a falling, ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... the most rigid economy of space some reference must be made to the attitude of Lois Kirkwood's sisters toward her as a sinning woman. Their amazement had yielded at once to righteous indignation. It was enough that she had sinned against Heaven; but that she should have brought shame upon them all and placed half the continent between herself and the scene ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

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