Definition of "sin" []

• A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate. (noun)
• Theology Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God. (noun)
• Theology A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience. (noun)
• Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong. (noun)
• To violate a religious or moral law. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "_Oh! this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold -- Yet now, if than wilt forgive their sin_"
• "I know all about Nancy, and her first husband and how he left her, and she thought he was dead, and married a good man, and when that worthless devil came back she thought she was living in sin with that good man -- in _sin_!"
• "And sin is _sin_ -- it is rebellion against the King of Heaven."