unsin

English

Etymology

un- + sin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈsɪn/

Verb

unsin (third-person singular simple present unsins, present participle unsinning, simple past and past participle unsinned)

  1. (transitive) To undo or annul a past sin.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive (a sin, etc.) of sinfulness; to make sinless.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
      when a ſin is paſt, grief may leſſen it , but not unſin it.

References

unsin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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