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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
                                                    23.
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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.
        [1913 Webster] Sinaic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sin
       n 1: 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}]
       v 1: 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}]
       [also: {sinning}, {sinned}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sinned
       See {sin}

















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