sinner
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ər noun
a person who sins; transgressor.
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| —n | |
| 1. | theol |
| a. transgression of God's known will or any principle or law regarded as embodying this | |
| b. actual sin mortal sin original sin See also venial sin the condition of estrangement from God arising from such transgression | |
| 2. | any serious offence, as against a religious or moral principle |
| 3. | any offence against a principle or standard |
| 4. | informal live in sin (of an unmarried couple) to live together |
| —vb , sins, sinning, sinned | |
| 5. | theol to commit a sin |
| 6. | ( |
| [Old English synn; related to Old Norse synth, Old High German suntea sin, Latin sons guilty] | |
| 'sinner1 | |
| —n | |
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Sinner
is always a great word to know.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example sentences
For every non repenting sinner maximum comfort and pleasure is to see another slip up.
She understands that an egotistical sinner always puts other people on the defensive.
The patriarch could not bear such enormous scandals, and tenderly exhorted this hardened sinner to have pity on his own soul.
The expectation is that the sinner, so hectored, will see her way to reform.
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