sin-sickadj.
Sick with sin.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sinfulness > [adjective] > sick from
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [adjective]
sinfulc825
sinnyc950
plightfula1400
sin-soiled1593
peccant1604
sin-sick1609
piacular1610
sinning1610
peccable1633
Adamical1642
piaculary1646
piaculous1646
peccaminous1656
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt > morally sick or diseased > sick with sin
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1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. xlvi. 99 Is there no meanes, but that a sin-sicke Land Must be let bloud with such a boysterous hand?
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. O. de la Nove Profit Imprisonm. 1068 in Wks. (1880) II. 64 The poysony humour fell Where~with my sin-sick heart already 'gan to swell.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 31 The manifold distempers of your sin-sick soul.
1779 W. Cowper in J. Newton & W. Cowper Olney Hymns iii. lix. 391 O God, whose favorable eye The sin-sick soul revives.
1845 G. Murray Islaford 46 The sin-sick heart reposed in hope and prayer.
Derivatives
ˈsin-sickness n. rare
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sinfulness > [noun] > sickness
sin-sickness1633
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [noun] > condition
sinfulheada1325
sinfulness1530
sin-sickness1633
peccancy1656
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > a morbid moral condition > state of being sick with sin
sin-sickness1633
1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 152 Commonly good men are best at last, euen when they are dying; for they seldome dye of a sinne-sicknesse.
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