synne

synne (plural synnes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sin
   • 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228

     If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.

Inherited from Old English synn, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju (“concern”), from Proto-Germanic *sunjō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-.

The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

• cynne, sin, sine, sinne, sunne, syn, synn
• senne, zen, zenne (Kent)
• seonne (Early Middle English)

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈsin(ə)/
• (West Midlands) IPA^(key): /ˈsun(ə)/, (SW Midlands) /ˈzun(ə)/
• (Southern) IPA^(key): /ˈzun(ə)/, /ˈzin(ə)/
• (Eastern) IPA^(key): (Kentish) /ˈzɛn(ə)/, (East Anglian) /ˈsɛn(ə)/

synne (plural synnes or (rare) synnen)

1. Iniquity, sinfulness; immoral behaviour.
2. A sin; an religiously immoral action:
   1. (specifically) Lewdness, promiscuity.
   2. A certain (specified) kind or class of sin.
3. (more generally) A wrong; e.g. a mistake or crime.

• synful
• synneles
• synnen
• synnere

• English: sin
• Scots: sin

• “sinne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

synne

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

synne

1. Alternative form of synnen (“to sin”)