Misusage and Sin
(n.) Bad treatment; abuse.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Estrangement from god.
- synonyms: sinfulness, wickedness
- An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will.
- synonyms: sinning
- Ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
- synonyms: sine
- Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna. (
- The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Violent and excited activity.
- usage: "they began to fight like sin"
- synonyms: hell
verb
- Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law.
- synonyms: transgress, trespass
- Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake.
- usage: "I blundered during the job interview"
- synonyms: drop the ball, blunder, boob, goof
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To violate human rights, law or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
- (n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- (adv.,prep.,&conj.) Old form of Since.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary