sin : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a sin committed of your own free will (as contrasted with original sin)
  

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• (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

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• trigonometry.

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• logarithms of the natural sines, or logarithmic sines.

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• etc., the same as logarithms of the natural, tangents, etc. Hutton.

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• (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

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• sin commited in privacy.

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• . See Sinusoid.

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• adjective satellite causing or capable of causing death
  deadly; deathly.
  
  • a fatal accident
  • a deadly enemy
  • mortal combat
  • a mortal illness
• adjective satellite of an instrument of certain death
  lethal.
  
  • deadly poisons
  • lethal weapon
  • a lethal injection
• adjective satellite extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  venomous; virulent.
  
  • venomous snakes
  • a virulent insect bite
• adjective satellite involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
  deadly.
  
  • the seven deadly sins
• adjective satellite exceedingly harmful
  baneful; pestilent; pernicious.
  
• adjective satellite (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
  
• adverb as if dead
  lifelessly.
  
• adverb (used as intensives) extremely
  insanely; deucedly; madly; devilishly.
  
  • she was madly in love
  • deadly dull
  • deadly earnest
  • deucedly clever
  • insanely jealous

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• noun an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
  deadly sin.
  
  • theologians list seven mortal sins

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• adverb with great speed or effort or intensity
  like the devil; like crazy; like mad; like thunder; like hell.
  
  • drove like crazy
  • worked like hell to get the job done
  • ran like sin for the storm cellar
  • work like thunder
  • fought like the devil

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• noun a human being
  someone; somebody; soul; person; individual.
  
  • there was too much for one person to do
• adjective subject to death
  
  • mortal beings
• adjective satellite involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
  deadly.
  
  • the seven deadly sins
• adjective satellite unrelenting and deadly
  
  • mortal enemy
• adjective satellite causing or capable of causing death
  deadly; deathly.
  
  • a fatal accident
  • a deadly enemy
  • mortal combat
  • a mortal illness

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• noun an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
  deadly sin.
  
  • theologians list seven mortal sins

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• the decimals expressing the values of the sines, the radius being unity.

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• noun Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
  ginseng; Panax pseudoginseng; Panax schinseng; Panax ginseng.
  

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• noun a sin said to be inherited by all descendants of Adam
  
  • Adam and Eve committed the original sin when they ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden

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• (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

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• noun the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
  remittal; remission; absolution.
  

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• a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.

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• a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin.

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• noun estrangement from god
  sinfulness; sin; wickedness.
  
• noun an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
  sinning; sin.
  
• noun ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
  sine; sin.
  
• noun (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
  Sin.
  
• noun the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  sin.
  
• noun violent and excited activity
  hell; sin.
  
  • they began to fight like sin
• verb commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
  trespass; sin; transgress.
  
• verb commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
  drop the ball; goof; boob; sin; blunder.
  
  • I blundered during the job interview

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• (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth.

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• noun a pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace
  

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• (R. C. Theol.), a sin which weakens, but does not wholly destroy, sanctifying grace, as do mortal, or deadly, sins.

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