Dictionary Entry

sinning

To commit a sin.

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Common Phrases

. sinningagainst sinningsinning without

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Poetry examples for “sinning”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

One thread in life worth spinning,
Ah sweet, one sin worth sinning
With all the whole soul's will;

No end, no passage, no beginning,
There where the sinner leaves off sinning,
There where the good man is not good.

Yet Thy true lover, mean tho’ I must be,
Sinning and sorrowing—didst Thou see?
O Lord, Thou sawest all.

Fixedly where all things move?
Can the sinning love each other?
Mother, mother,

Let ill deeds loiter not: for they supply
New thoughts of sinning:
wherefore, to my shame,

In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,

E’en sighs a wish that life had never been.
Still vainly sinning, while she strives to pray,
Half-smother’d discontent pursues its way

And never follow’d wicked ways--
Unless when she was sinning.

And never follow’d wicked ways,—
_Unless when she was sinning._

The Squire said, "Sure as paradise
Was lost to man by Adam's sinning,
This leap is for us all too bold; 1819.