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SINNER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who sins (without repenting)
Synonyms:
evildoer; sinner
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sinner" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sinner"):
magdalen (a reformed prostitute)
Instance hyponyms:
Mary Magdalen; Mary Magdalene; St. Mary Magdalen; St. Mary Magdalene (sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus)
Derivation:
sin (commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law)
Context examples:
Why, here’s John Cummings of the Friars’ Oak Inn, as I’m a sinner, and seekin’ for a mad doctor, to judge by the look of him!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The girl reached the plate to him, but the king’s son threw off the quilt, and said: You old sinner, why did you want to kill me?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Now this won't do," said John, hardening his heart against the engaging little sinner.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"Ay," he answered, his deep voice as a response to her thin one, "may God receive me, a repentant sinner."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I look at the sunlight coming in at the open door through the porch, and there I see a stray sheep—I don't mean a sinner, but mutton—half making up his mind to come into the church.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sinners told their sins to the pure-hearted old man and were both rebuked and saved.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then take my word for it,—I am not a villain: you are not to suppose that—not to attribute to me any such bad eminence; but, owing, I verily believe, rather to circumstances than to my natural bent, I am a trite commonplace sinner, hackneyed in all the poor petty dissipations with which the rich and worthless try to put on life.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
