Meaning & use
Sinning
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Committing a sin; acting in violation of religious, moral, or divine law.
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The preacher warned the congregation against sinning through greed and envy.
He joked that eating dessert before dinner felt like sinning.
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The word is rooted in the Old English synn, related to a wider Germanic sense of "guilt" or "wrongdoing."
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