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

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.

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

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

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

* 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.

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

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

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.