Thesaurus: sin

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1. adv., prep., & conj. Old form of Since.
2. n. 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.
3. n. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
4. n. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
5. n. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
6. 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.
7. n. To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
8. n. estrangement from god
9. n. an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
10. n. ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
11. n. the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
12. v. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law