Word Meanings - SINNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

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• REPENTANT
  1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope.
• INCORRIGIBLENESS
  Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
• SINNET
  See
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• REPENTANTLY
  In a repentant manner.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• INCORRIGIBLE
  Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.
• CONDEMNED
  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
• PERSISTENTLY
  In a persistent manner.
• PERSISTENT
  Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous. (more info) 1. Inclined to persist; having staying
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• REPENTINGLY
  With repentance; penitently.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• TRANSGRESSOR
  One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner. The way of transgressors is hard. Prov. xiii. 15.
• CONDEMN
  To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
• REPENTANCE
  The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind,
• SINNER
  One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
• CONDEMNABLE
  Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• SELF-CONDEMNATION
  Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• IRREPENTANCE
  Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.