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Definition: Sinner |
SinnerNoun1. A person who sins (without repenting). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sinner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A stupid person who gets found out. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This page is concerned with the common meaning of "sin" related to immoralities. For other meanings, see Sin (disambiguation)
Sin is a concept used primarily in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) describing a transgression against the will of God, and often held to require repentance and penance; in some theologies it may also entail the risk of damnation.
Some religions hold that a sin is an act which does damage to the soul.
Atonement describes the process through which we become reconciled to God for sins. It was a concept derived from Judaism and became a central idea of Christian theology.
In Christian theology, impeccability is the absence of sin.
In Hinduism and other vedic religions, the term sin is often used to describe actions that create karma.
Etymology
The English word sin derives from Old English synn. The same root appears in several other Germanic languages, e.g. Old Norse synd, or German Sünde. The word may derive, ultimately, from *es-, one of the Indo-European roots that meant "to be," and is a present participle, "being." Latin, also has an old present participle of esse in the word sons, sont-, which came to mean "guilty" in Latin. The root meaning would appear to be, "it is true;" that is, "the charge has been proven." The Greek word hamartia is often translated as sin in the New Testament; it means "to miss the mark" or "to miss the target".
Biblical conceptions of atonement for sin
Aatonement for sins is discussed in the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament. Rituals for atonement occurred in the Temple in Jerusalem, and were performed by the Kohanim, priests. These services included song, prayer, offerings and animal sacrifices. The rites for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, are prescribed in the book of Leviticus. The ritual of the scapegoat, sent into the wilderness to be claimed by Azazel, was a part of these observances.
A number of animal sacrifices were prescribed in the Torah (five books of Moses) to make atonement: a sin-offering for sins, and a guilt offering for religious trespasses. The significance of animal sacrifice, why God commanded them, is not expanded on at length in the Torah itself, though Genesis IX:4 and Leviticus XVII suggest that blood and vitality were linked. Later Biblical prophets occasionally make statements to the effect that the hearts of the people were more important than their sacrifices.
Note that Judaism's views on sin and atonement are not identical to those in the Hebrew Bible alone, but rather are based on the laws of the Bible as seen through the Jewish oral law.
- See also: Seven deadly sins
Jewish views of sin
Judaism regards the violation of divine commandments to be a sin. Judaism uses this term to include violations of Jewish law that are not necessarily a lapse in morality. Judaism holds that all people sin at various points in their lives, and hold that God tempers justice with mercy.
The generic Hebrew word for any kind of sin is aveira. Based on verses in the Hebrew Bible, Judaism describes three levels of sin.
Judaism holds that no human being is perfect, and all people have sinned many times. However a state of sin does not condemn a person to damnation; only one or two truly grievous sins lead to anything approaching the Christian idea of hell. The Biblical and rabbinic conception of God is that of a creator who tempers justice with mercy. Based on the views of Rabbeinu Tam in the Babylonian Talmud (tractate Rosh HaShanah 17b), God is said to have thirteen attributes of mercy:
- Pesha or Mered - An intentional sin; an action committed in deliberate defiance of God;
- Ovon - This is a sin of lust or uncontrollable emotion. It is a sin done knowingly, but not done to defy God;
- Cheit - This is an unintentional sin.
As Jews are commanded in imitatio Dei, emulating God, rabbis take these attributes into account in deciding Jewish law and its contemporary application.
- God is merciful before someone sins, even though God knows that a person is capable of sin.
- God is merciful to a sinner even after the person has sinned.
- God represents the power to be merciful even in areas that a human would not expect or deserve.
- God is compassionate, and eases the punishment of the guilty.
- God is gracious even to those who are not deserving.
- God is slow to anger.
- God is abundant in kindness.
- God is a god of truth, thus we can count on God's promises to forgive repentant sinners.
- God guarantees kindness to future generations, as the deeds of the righteous patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) have benefits to all their descendants.
- God forgives intentional sins if the sinner repents.
- God forgives a deliberate angering of Him if the sinner repents.
- God forgives sins that are committed in error.
- God wipes away the sins away from those who repent.
A classical rabbinic work, Midrash Avot de Rabbi Natan, states:
The Babylonian Talmud teaches that "Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Eleazar both explain that as long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel, but now, one's table atones [when the poor are invited as guests]." (Tractate Berachot, 55a.)
- One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins. "Woe to us" cried Rabbi Yehosua, "for this house where atonement was made for Israel's sins now lies in ruins!" Answered Rabban Yochanan, "We have another, equally important source of atonement, the practice of gemilut hasadim (loving kindness), as it is stated 'I desire loving kindness and not sacrifice'".
The traditional liturgy of the Days of Awe (the High Holy Days; i.e. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) states that prayer, repentance and tzedakah (charitable actions) are how one atones for sin.
Christian views of sin
There is a difference among Christians concerning the use of the word "sin". Protestants use it primarily for what they see as humanity's inherently sinful nature, and only secondarily to actual instances of sin. Roman Catholics by contrast reserve the word only for actual instances of sin, calling the sinful nature of humans "concupiscence". One Greek word in the New Testament that is often translated "sin" is hamartia, which literally means missing the target. Catholics distinguish between venial sin, which warrants only temporal punishment in Purgatory, and mortal sin, which warrants eternal punishment in Hell, if left unconfessed.
According to Roman Catholicism, in addition to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary also lived her entire life without sin. She is believed to have gone directly to heaven after the end of her life on Earth; this doctrine is the Assumption of Mary. This belief in Mary's sinlessness is shared by many Eastern Orthodox theologians, but is not universally held and is not generally considered to be a point of dogma.
Original sin - Most denominations of Christianity interpret the Garden of Eden story in Genesis in terms of the fall of man. Adam and Eve's disobedience was the first sin ever committed, and their original sin (or the effects of their sin) is passed on to their descendants and is a primary reason that people must be born again and gain salvation.
In Western Christianity, sin is often viewed as a legal infraction or contract violation, and so salvation is also tends to be viewed in legal terms. In Eastern Christianity, sin is more often viewed in terms of its effects on relationships, both among people and between people and God. Consequently, salvation is viewed more in terms of reconciliation and vastly improved relationships. These two perspectives are not mutually exclusive, but merely reflect different emphases in thinking and teaching.
There also tends to be a distinction between Roman Catholic and some Protestant views of the effects of sin. Many Protestants teach that sin, including original sin, has entirely extinguished any human capacity to move in the direction of reconciliation towards God. Salvation is sola fide, by faith alone, and sola gratia, by grace alone, and by God's initiative alone. This view is called total depravity, and is associated with Calvinism and to some extent with Lutheranism.
Roman Catholics, by contrast, typically teach that while sin has tarnished the original goodness of humanity prior to the Fall, it has not entirely extinguished that goodness. Under this view, humans can reach towards God to share in the Redemption which Christ won for them. This view is shared by some versions of Protestantism also, including Methodism; among Protestants, at least, it is known as Arminianism. It is also logically necessary for Pascal's wager to be effective.
One theological tenet gaining currency among Protestant Evangelicals and Fundamentalists is that original sin resulted in imperfections at the genetic level. This seems to be an attempt to incorporate some findings from science into what has been called Creation science. This claim is rejected as theologically wrong by Catholics and liberal Protestants, and is widely regarded as pseudo-science by scientists.
Christian views of atonement
In Christianity, atonement refers to the redemption achieved by Jesus Christ by his crucifixion and resurrection. Its centrality means that it has been the source of much discussion and some controversy throughout Christian history. Christians begin with the proposition that the death of Jesus Christ was a similar sacrifice that relieves believers of the burden of their sins. But what was the actual meaning of Christ's death? Why did He have to die? The meaning of an event of such transcendent significance to Christians is hard to capture in any one verbal formula. But several have been ventured:
The several ideas of these and many more theologians can perhaps be summed up under these rubrics:
- Origen taught that the death of Christ was a ransom paid to Satan in satisfaction of his just claim on the souls of humanity as a result of sin.
- St. Irenaeus of Lyons taught that Christ recapitulated in Himself all the stages of life of sinful man, and that His perfect obedience substituted for Adam's disobedience.
- St. Athanasius of Alexandria taught that Christ came to overcome death and corruption, and to remake humanity in God's image again. See On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius.
- St. Anselm taught that Christ's death satisfied God's offended sense of justice over the sins of humanity. Also, God rewarded Christ's obedience, which built up a storehouse of merit and a treasury of grace that believers could share by their faith in Christ. Anselm's teaching is contained in his treatise Cur Deus Homo, which means Why God Became Human.
- Abelard held that Christ's Passion was God suffering with His creatures in order to show the greatness of His love for them.
- John Calvin taught that Christ, the only sinless person, volunteered to take upon Himself the penalty for the sins that should have been visited on the rest of humanity. Calvin's view is called substitutionary atonement.
- Karl Barth taught that Christ's death manifested God's love and His hatred for sin.
For the Christian, full appreciation of the mystery of atonement may require a balance of all four themes.
- Substitution: the idea that God assumed the penalty for human sins on the Cross, and volunteered punishment so that the faithful might escape it;
- Example: the idea that Christ's death was meant as an object lesson in ideal submission to the will of God, and to show the path to eternal life;
- Revelation: the idea that Christ's death was meant to reveal God's nature to us, to help us to know Him and His nature better, and to show us the coming resurrection.
- Victory: the idea that Christ defeated Death through his death, and gave life to those in the grave.
See also: Penance; Repentance; Reconciliation; Catholic sacraments
Muslim views of Sin
Islam sees sin to be anything that harms Allah's creation or goes against the will of Allah.
Surely, there is more to be said about Islamic views of sin and atonement.
See also: God, Religion
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sin."
Synonym: SinnerSynonym: evildoer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Noun: bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer; sinner; the wicked; bad example. |
Impiety | Sinner; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite; (dissembler); Tartufe, Mawworm. |
Vice | Sinner. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sinner |
| English words defined with "sinner": suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory ♦ To saint it. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sinner": Baptism of Christ ♦ Excommunication ♦ Mummy ♦ No, Not ♦ Precedent, Precipitate ♦ Reconcilation, redemption, Re-demption ♦ saint, sheriff, symbolic. (references) |
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Screenplays | Richard, who was your favorite Little Rascal? Was it Alfalfa, or was it Spanky, hehehehehehe, sinner. (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.) Oh man, I'm a sinner. God's a pervert (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Ha! Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner! (Velvet Goldmine; writing credit: James Lyons; Todd Haynes) I like what you said over at Tom's, Camille said that it's important to love the sinner but hate the sin, so that you're allowed to feel the desire but not act on that desire (When Night Is Falling; writing credit: Patricia Rozema) | |
Lyrics | Say you're a winner but man you're just a sinner now (THE STROKE; performing artist: Billy Squier) Ev'ry sinner looks for something (Crying in the Chapel; performing artist: Elvis Presley) They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) Are you gonna be a sinner who weeps (Burn; performing artist: Jo Dee Messina) I'm a sinner, I'm a saint (Bitch; performing artist: Meredith Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ordinary Sinner (2003) Diary of a Sinner (1974) The Young Sinner (1965) Once a Sinner (1950) The Great Sinner (1949) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Bunyan | One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. |
Martin Luther | Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. |
Oscar Wilde | Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. |
Seneca | The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | So that is merely one of the many instances of Sin causing suffering to others than the Sinner himself |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner, than over the white robes of a hundred good men. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | For just and unjust, for saint and sinner alike, may this retreat be a memorable one. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | While such a sun holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Gat Huckle |
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Deepak Chopra | Well, I think we have a clash right now between two paradigms. The first paradigm says, you know, it's based on Christian theology which says, I'm a sinner, I must atone for my sins. I must pray for forgiveness. I must seek redemption. |
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| "Sinner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Sinner" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.65% | 132 | 27,743 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 138 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "sinner" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sinner | Last name | 400 | 22,624 |
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| Country | Name |
| Germany | Sinner AG |
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Expression using "sinner": repentant sinner. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sinner": sinner-a. | |
Ending with "sinner": great-sinner. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sinner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mëkatar (evil, evil doer, Peccable, peccant, sinful, transgressor, unrighteous, wrongdoer), gjynahqar. (various references) | |
Arabic | الآثم مرتكب الذنب, الشرير (malefactor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | калпазанин (rascal, rogue, scamp), грешник (evil doer, transgressor, trespasser, wrongdoer), виновник (author, causer, culprit, delinquent, offender, perpetrator, stirrer-up), нарушител (breaker, culprit, disturber, intruder, offender, transgressor, violator, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 罪人 . (various references) | |
Czech | hříšník (transgressor, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Farsi | گناهکار (Criminal, Guilty, Sinful, Unregenerate(Ed), Unrighteous, Wicked), عاصی (Sinful), بزهکار (Criminal, Guilty). (various references) | |
Finnish | syntinen (sinful), synnintekijä. (various references) | |
French | pécheur. (various references) | |
German | Sünder (sinners, unrighteous). (various references) | |
Greek | αμαρτωλόσ (peccant, sinful, trespasser), αμαρτωλός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עברין (culprit, defaulter, delinquent, malefactor, malfeasant, miscreant, offender, transgressor), חוטא (peccant, reprobate, sinful, wrongdoer), אשמאי (wrongdoer), ח ף (flatterer, hypocrite, wicked), סרחן (stinker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vétkezõ, bûnös (criminal, culpable, culprit, delinquent, found guilty, guilty, miscreant, offender, peccant, sinful, vicious, wicked), bűnös (culpable, culprit, malicious, miscreant, nefarious, peccant, rep, sinful, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pendosa. (various references) | |
Italian | peccatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 罪人 (criminal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つみびと. (various references) | |
Manx | peccah (human being, sin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innersay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tratante (kite, knave, knavish, loon, ne'er-do-well, picaroon, rascal, rogue, roguish, scamp, scapegrace, sirrah, spalpeen, vagabond, wheeler-dealer), pecador (erring, offender, sinful, transgressor, trespasser), má pessoa. (various references) | |
Romanian | pãcãtos (faulty, flagitious, godless, guilty, nefarious, Peccable, sinful, trespasser, wicked). (various references) | |
Russian | грешник (evil doer, transgressor, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Scottish | peacach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grešnik (offender, transgressor). (various references) | |
Spanish | pecador (offender, peccant, sinful). (various references) | |
Swedish | syndare (culprit, offender, transgressor, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Turkish | rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), günahkâr (erring, evil, evil doer, fallen, guilty, reprobate, sacrilegious, sinful, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly, unrighteous, wicked, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грішник (evil doer, wrong doer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người có tội. (various references) | |
Welsh | pechadur (offender). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amorrei, amorreis, amorreo, amorreorum, amorreos, amorreum, amorreus, itureae, iturei, peccator, peccatore, peccatorem, peccatores, peccatori, peccatoribus, peccatoris, peccatorum, peccatrice, peccatrici, peccatrix, rea, rei, reum, reus, rhei. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | manshliht. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En kakia autou apwsqhsetai asebhV o de pepoiqwV th eautou osiothti dikaioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In malitia sua expelletur impius sperat autem iustus in morte sua |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In hys malice is put out the vnpitous; the riytwis forsothe hopeth in his deth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 32 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang dautan giunlod ngadto sa kahiladman tungod sa iyang buhat nga dautan; Apan ang matarung may usa ka dalangpanan sa iyang kamatayon. |
| Chinese | 惡 人 在 所 行 的 惡 上 、 必 被 推 ' ． 義 人 臨 死 、 有 所 投 。 |
| Croatian | Opaki propada zbog vlastite pakosti, a pravednik i u samoj smrti nalazi utoèište. |
| Danish | Ved sin Ondskab styrtes den gudløse, ved lydefri Færd er retfærdige trygge. |
| Dutch | De goddeloze zal heengedreven worden in zijn kwaad; maar de rechtvaardige betrouwt zelfs in zijn dood. |
| Finnish | Jumalaton sortuu omaan pahuuteensa, mutta vanhurskas on turvattu kuollessaan. |
| French | Le méchant est renversé par sa méchanceté, Mais le juste trouve un refuge même en sa mort. |
| German | Der Gottlose besteht nicht in seinem Unglück; aber der Gerechte ist auch in seinem Tod getrost. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Mechanste mechan an, se sa k'ap jete l' atè. Men, moun ki fè sa ki byen, y'ap pwoteje l' menm lè lavi l' an danje. |
| Hungarian | Az õ nyavalyájába ejti magát az istentelen; az igaznak pedig halála idején is reménysége van. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang jahat binasa karena kejahatan, orang baik terlindung oleh ketulusannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang jahat dikejar oleh kejahatannya sendiri, tetapi orang yang benar itu haraplah jikalau pada masa matinya sekalipun. |
| Italian | Dalla propria malvagit è travolto l'empio, il giusto ha un rifugio nella propria integrit . |
| Korean | 악 인 은 그 환 난 에 엎 " 러 도 의 인 은 그 죽 음 에 도 소 망 이 있 느 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ E uakina iho ana te tangata kino i runga i tona he; ko te tangata tika ia ka whai tumanakohanga i tona matenga. |
| Norwegian | Når ulykken rammer den ugudelige, kastes han over ende; men den rettferdige er frimodig i døden. |
| Portuguese | O ímpio é derrubado pela sua malícia; mas o justo até na sua morte acha refúgio. |
| Rumanian | Cel rqu este doborkt de rqutatea lui, dar cel neprihqnit chiar wi la moarte trage nqdejde. - |
| Russian | ъБ ЪМП УЧПЕ ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЩК 'Х"ЕФ ПФЧЕТЗОХФ, Б ТБЧЕ"ОЩК Й ТЙ УНЕТФЙ УЧПЕК ЙНЕЕФ ОБ"ЕЦ"Х. |
| Spanish | Por su maldad será derribado el impío, pero el justo en su integridad halla refugio. |
| Swedish | Genom sin ondska kommer de ogudaktige på fall, men den rättfärdige är frimodig in i döden. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sinner": sinners. (additional references) | |
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"Sinner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kinner, Sandner, scnner, Sennar, shinner, sincer, siner, sinere, sinerg, sinex, sinier, Sinna, sinne, sinnen, sinni, sonner, Sonnex, sunnr, swiner, Swinney, syner, zinne, zinner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sinner" (pronounced si"ner) |
| 3 | -i" n er | beginner, dinner, inner, Pinner, Skinner, spinner, thinner, winner. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: inners, renins. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: inner, nines, reins, renin, resin, rinse, risen, serin, siren. | |
-2 letters: erns, inns, ires, nine, rein, reis, rins, rise, sine, sire. | |
-3 letters: ens, ern, ers, inn, ins, ire, rei, res, rin, sei, sen, ser, sin, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: en, er, es, in, is, ne, re, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: dinners, endrins, ginners, insaner, insnare, interns, pinners, rennins, sinners, skinner, spinner, sunnier, tinners, unrisen, winners. | |
+2 letters: aginners, aneurins, anserine, cinerins, crannies, earnings, einkorns, engrains, enshrine, ensuring, entrains, environs, grannies, grinners, infernos, innerves, inshrine, insnared, insnarer, insnares, intenser, internes, intoners, ironness, narceins, negronis, nervines, nervings, neurines, nonskier, panniers, raisonne, reinsman, reinsmen, resining, reunions, runniest, shinnery, sirenian, skinners, skinnier, sneering, spinners, spinnery, ternions, thinners, unrinsed, vintners. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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