SIN

Definitions

(Abbreviation) System Identification Number

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1. An offense against God, religion, or moral law, especially when deliberate.

Quotes:

(1) Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) in All the King's Men (1949): ' Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption.'

(2) Gwendolyn Chelm (Jennifer Jones) to Mr. Petersen (Robert Morley) in Beat the Devil (1954): ' Isn't that what we're all concerned with, sin? '

(3) Tom (Nick Nolte) and Susan (Barbra Streisand) in The Prince of Tides (1991):
-- Tom Wingo: ' Lowenstein, I think I like adultery.'
-- Susan Lowenstein: ' That's why they made it a sin.'

(4) The narrator (Jodhi May) in The Scarlet Letter (1995): ' Who is to say what is a sin in God's eye? '

(5) John Milton (Al Pacino) in The Devil's Advocate (1998): ' Vanity is definitely my favorite sin.'

2. To transgress the laws of God; to commit an illegal or immoral act(ion).
Synonyms: backslide; be wicked; break commandment; break law; cheat; commit crime; commit sin; deviate; do wrong; err; fall; fall from grace; go astray; lapse; live in sin; misbehave; misconduct; offend; stray; take the primrose path; transgress; trespass; wallow in the mire; wander.

Quotes:

(1) Lucius, the narrator (Burgess Meredith) in The Reivers (1969): ' Boone knew something I didn't, that the rewards of virtue are cold, and odorless, and tasteless, and not to be compared with the bright and exciting pleasures of sin and wrong-doing.'

(2) Mrs. Flax (Cher) and her daughter Charlotte (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990):
-- Mrs. Flax: ' Okay, how do I look? '
-- Charlotte: ' Like a woman about to go forth in sin.'
-- Mrs. Flax: ' Oh, good. Exactly the look I was hoping for.'

3. By extension, a transgression of any law, standard, code, etc. ' It's a sin to throw food.'

Quote: Howard (Woody Allen) in The Front (1976): ' In my family the biggest sin was to buy retail.'

4. Something regarded as shameful, wrongul or wicked.Synonyms: evil; evildoing; iniquity; malefaction; tort; transgression; trespass; violation; crime; felony; misdemeanor; villainy; misdeed; offense; infraction; unrighteousness; wrong; wrongdoing.

Quotes:

(1) Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn) to the Englishman Basil (Alan Bates) in Zorba the Greek (1964): ' If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.'

(2) Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) to Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford) in Working Girl (1988): ' I have a head for business and a bod for sin.'

5. Sin of many men , obsolete literary allusion to ejaculated semen or the ejaculation of semen. According to James T. Henke in Courtesans and Cuckolds. A Glossary of Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy (1979): ' A seminal emission in the vagina of a whore literally would be a "sin".'

6. Sin's attorney , obsolete literary euphemism for a pimp or pander.

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(Abbreviation) Self-Inflicted Nonsense

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(Noun) Action committed due to influence of vices like lust, anger, greed, attachment, ego, jealous, etc

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(Noun) Action done under ignorance(of real truth)

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(Noun) The act that separates us from God, and makes us unholy. Thankfully, God sent His Son Jesus to take the punishment for our sins, and by making Him LORD of our lives, and accepting His offer of salvation, we can be made holy by Him. :)

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(Noun) transgression, bad deed

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(Noun) a wrongdoing

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(Abbreviation) Spill It Now

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(Abbreviation) Sprinkler Identification Number

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(Abbreviation) See sine.

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(Abbreviation) Scottish Information Network

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(Abbreviation) Securities Industry News

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(Abbreviation) Service Industry Night

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(Abbreviation) Social Insurance Number

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(Abbreviation) Spanish International Network

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(Abbreviation) Special Item No.

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(Abbreviation) Special Item Number

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(Abbreviation) Sports Information Network

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(Abbreviation) Sunshine Interactive Network

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(Abbreviation) Surveillance Information Network

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(Noun) Action or thought that decreases soul power.

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(Abbreviation) Spanking Internet Network

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(Verb) Anything that destroys what God loves