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unˈsin, v.
[un-2 4 b, 6 b.]
1. trans. To annul (a sin) by subsequent action.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. lxxxix. 257 When a sinne is past, griefe may lessen it, but not vnsinne it. 1670Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 593 They who..observe the other injunction of the prophet..have unsinned their former sins. 1705J. Dunton Life & Errors 405, I can't Un-Sin the Errours of my past Life. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. iv. 285 The proper process of unsinning sin Is to begin well-doing somehow else.
2. To free (a person) from being a sinner.
c1629Donne Serm. (1640) 645 Expeccabis; and if in our language, that were a word in use, it might be translated, ‘Thou shalt un-sin me’, that is, look upon me as a man that had never sinned.
3. To maintain or prove to be no sin; to divest of the character of a sin.
1682Southerne Loyal Brother v. i, Gifted Rogues, That..zealously, upon a fit of Conscience, Sin or Unsin Rebellion to the Croud. a1715South Serm. IV. 123 He who defends it [sc. a sin], utterly denies its Guilt, and (as I may so speak) absolutely unsins it. |