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sin

noun
/ˈsɪn//sɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from , from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sände, Säände (“sin”), West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), German Sünde (“sin”), Luxembourgish Sënd, Sënn (“sin”), Vilamovian zynd (“sin”) Yiddish זינד (zind, “sin”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish synd (“sin”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja, “truth”), Latin sont-, sons (“sinful, guilty, criminal”).

  1. inherited from *sunjō✻
  2. inherited from *sunnju✻
  3. inherited from synn
  4. inherited from sinne

Definitions

  1. A violation of divine will or religious law.

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

  2. Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.

  3. A misdeed or wrong.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A sin offering

      A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

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

    2. An embodiment of sin

      An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

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

    3. A flaw or mistake.

      • No movie is without sin.

    4. sin bin

    5. To commit a sin.

    6. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet

      A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ

    7. A letter of the Arabic alphabet

      A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

    8. Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).

    9. The god of the moon.

    10. A surname from Chinese.

    11. A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.

    12. Abbreviation of Sinaloa

      Abbreviation of Sinaloa: a state of Mexico.

    13. Initialism of social insurance number, an identification number issued by the government…

      Initialism of social insurance number, an identification number issued by the government of Canada.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sin. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sin. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at sin

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA