Meaning of sin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of Sinaloa: a state of Mexico.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. Initialism of social insurance number, an identification number issued by the government of Canada.
   Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A violation of divine will or religious law.
   countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable
4. The god of the moon.
5. The trigonometric function sine
6. A surname from Chinese.
7. A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.
8. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
9. Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
   countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable
10. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sinhalese
11. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
12. A misdeed or wrong.
    countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable
13. A violation of divine will or religious law
14. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
    countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable
15. Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity
16. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
    countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable
17. A misdeed or wrong
18. A flaw or mistake.
    countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable
19. sin bin
    countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.”

“Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[…]”

“The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.”

“For he hath made him to be ſinne for vs, who knewe no ſinne,[…]”

“Thy Ambition / (Thou Scarlet ſinne) robb’d this bewailing Land / Of Noble Buckingham,[…]”

“No movie is without sin.”

“Winger Cheslin Kolbe, sitting with his jersey over his head in the sin after a yellow card at the death, was probably the sight of millions of South Africans around the country who had their hearts in their mouth as they sat through another nail-biting match.”

“And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”

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