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▪ I. sinning, vbl. n.|ˈsɪnɪŋ| Forms: α. 1 syngung; 3 sineginge, siniging (4 -yng), sunegunge, -ynge, -ing; 4 seneȝynge. β. 5 cynn-, synnynge, 6 synnyng, 7– sinning. [f. sin v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb in various senses. αc1000Ags. Hom. (Assmann) 149 Us is swiðe þearle to efstanne,..þæt we..ðære syngunge ᵹeswican. c1220Bestiary 193 No mod ðu ne cune..Oc swic of sineginge. a1225Ancr. R. 52 Lo hu holi writ..telleð hu sunegunge bigon. c1315Shoreham 1. 669 Ine wyl of seneȝynge. a1400in Herrig's Archiv CIV. 307 God is more greuet of þat defendyng Þen of þe furste sinigyng. βc1440Promp. Parv. 78/1 Cynnynge, peccamen. 1493Communycacyon (W. de W. 1535) A iij, Thou purposed..To set my people in synnynge. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 227 Not onely for ones, twyse, or seuen tymes synnyng. 1611Bible Ecclus. xviii. 27 In the day of sinning he will beware of offence. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 661 Spirits of purest light,..now gross by sinning grown. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 429 The Blessing of God does not ordinarily follow a presumptuous Sinning against his Command. 1818Byron Juan i. vii, The regularity of my design Forbids all wandering as the worst of sinning. 1841Browning Pippa Passes Poems (1905) 171 To think She would succeed in her absurd attempt, And fascinate by sinning. attrib.1643Trapp Comm. Gen. vi. 17 God will not alway serve men for a sinning-stock. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 147 A sinning-house near Whetstones-Park. ▪ II. ˈsinning, ppl. a. [f. sin v. + -ing2.] That sins or commits transgressions.
1609Bible (Douay) Amos ix. 8 Behold the eyes of our Lord upon the sinning kingdom. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. viii. 370 Tis not yond noble kinges intent to kill his sinninge subiectes that repent. 1885Athenæum 5 Sept. 300/2 The implacable wrath which he subsequently felt for the sinning guest at last melted. Hence ˈsinningly adv., ˈsinningness.
1647Trapp Comm. 1 John iii. 9 Sinningly, so as to be transformed into sin's image. 1674J. B[rian] Harvest-Home i. 3 Nor shall they offend Sinningly. 1863tr. Réville's Man. Relig. Instruct. 201 The liability to sin may be called sinnableness; the tendency, sinningness. |