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Word Meanings - SINFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts. Piers Plowman. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Isa. i. 4. -- Sin"ful*ly, adv. -- Sin"ful*ness, n.

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  • COMMENDATOR
    One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
  • MISGUIDE
    Misguidance; error. Spenser.
  • APPROVEDLY
    So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
  • SORDIDNESS
    The quality or state of being sordid.
  • FRAILNESS
    Frailty.
  • COMMENDER
    One who commends or praises.
  • ERRABLENESS
    Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
  • ERRHINE
    A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • AMELIORATE
    To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • CHEAPLY
    At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
  • ABJECT
    1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • MISLIKE
    Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
  • MISLIN
    See MASLIN
  • WANDERMENT
    The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
  • ERRANTRY
    1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
  • PECCABLE
    Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • VERRUGAS
    An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
  • SERR
    To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
  • TERRESTRIFY
    To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
  • INERRABLE
    Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
  • SUPERROYAL
    Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
  • BERRETTA
    A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
  • INTERREX
    An interregent, or a regent.
  • FERRIER
    A ferryman. Calthrop.
  • TERRICOLAE
    A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
  • OVERRULING
    Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
  • BISERRATE
    Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.
  • HERR
    A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
  • FERROCALCITE
    Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
  • INTERRADIAL
    Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.

 

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