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罪,犯罪,犯法,過失,失禮犯

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sin \Sin\, adv., prep., & conj.
   Old form of {Since}. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

         Sin that his lord was twenty year of age. --Chaucer.

Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS.
   sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s["u]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L.
   sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of
   the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is.
   Cf. {Authentic}, {Sooth}.]
   1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the
      divine command; any violation of God's will, either in
      purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character;
      iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

            Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
                                                  --John viii.
                                                  34.

            Sin is the transgression of the law.  --1 John iii.
                                                  4.

            I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly
            win.                                  --Shak.

            Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.
                                                  --Milton.

   2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a
      misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

            I grant that poetry's a crying sin.   --Pope.

   3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

            He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
                                                  --2 Cor. v.
                                                  21.

   4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]

            Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this
            bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.   --Shak.

   Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of
         obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred,
         sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like.

   {Actual sin},

   {Canonical sins},

   {Original sin},

   {Venial sin}. See under {Actual}, {Canonical}, etc.

   {Deadly}, or

   {Mortal},

   {sins} (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.

   {Sin eater}, 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.

   {Sin offering}, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an
      expiation for sin.

   Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See {Crime}.

Sin \Sin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sinned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sinning}.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See
   {Sin}, n.]
   1. To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by
      God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular,
      by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance
      of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; --
      often followed by against.

            Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. --Ps. li. 4.

            All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
                                                  --Rom. iii.
                                                  23.

   2. To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an
      offense; to trespass; to transgress.

            I am a man More sinned against than sinning. --Shak.

            Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins
            against the eternal cause.            --Pope.

資料來源 : WordNet®

sin
     n 1: estrangement from god [syn: {sinfulness}, {wickedness}]
     2: an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of
        God's will [syn: {sinning}]
     3: ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a
        right-angled triangle [syn: {sine}]
     4: (Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
     5: the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
     6: violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
        [syn: {hell}]
     [also: {sinning}, {sinned}]

sin
     v 1: commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law [syn: {transgress},
           {trespass}]
     2: commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I
        blundered during the job interview" [syn: {blunder}, {boob},
         {goof}]
     [also: {sinning}, {sinned}]