sin has definitions from the fields of religion,Akkadian,sociology,mathematics
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[ noun ] (religion) estrangement from god

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

However , even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming , at_least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace .

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

`` So_that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur , and become lifted_up , as if he had no lord , because of the dominion that had been given to him , and the freedom , fall into sin against God his Creator , overstepping his bounds , and take_up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God , a law was given him by God , that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all .

`` Wherefore also He [ God ] drove him [ man ] out of Paradise , and removed him far from the tree of life , not because He envied him the tree of life , as some venture to assert , but because He pitied him , [ and did not desire ] that he should continue a sinner for ever , nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal , and evil interminable and irremediable .

But He set a bound to his [ state of ] sin , by interposing death , and thus causing sin to cease , putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh , which should take_place in the earth , so_that man , ceasing at_length to live in sin , and dying to it , might live to God '' .

But He set a bound to his [ state of ] sin , by interposing death , and thus causing sin to cease , putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh , which should take_place in the earth , so_that man , ceasing at_length to live in sin , and dying to it , might live to God '' .

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[ noun ] (religion) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

Synonyms

sinning

Used in print

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin : The civil_law is concerned with public crimes .

Only confusion , failure and anarchy result when the effort is made to impose upon the civil_authority the impossible task of policing private homes to preclude the possibility of sin .

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[ verb ] (religion) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

Synonyms

trespass transgress

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

It did not serve to contrast the existing order of society with a possible alternative order , because the age of innocence was not a possible alternative once man had sinned .

Related terms

transgress fall evildoing

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[ noun ] (mathematics) ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

Synonyms

sine

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trigonometric_function

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[ noun ] (Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

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Semitic_deity Mesopotamia

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[ noun ] the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

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letter Hebrew_alphabet

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[ verb ] (sociology) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

Synonyms

blunder goof boob

Examples

"I blundered during the job interview"

Related terms

transgress fathead blunder

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 15345
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[ noun ] (colloquial) violent and excited activity

Synonyms

hell

Examples

"they began to fight like sin"

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activity colloquialism

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