SINNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sinner mean? 

• SINNER (noun)
  The noun SINNER has 1 sense:

1. a person who sins (without repenting)

  Familiarity information: SINNER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who sins (without repenting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

evildoer; sinner

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 

"Prut! Thou beginnest early. What did the little Mary say to that?" asked Mr. Bhaer, continuing to confess the young sinner, who stood upon the knee, exploring the waistcoat pocket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Why, it’s young Master Rodney Stone, as I’m a living sinner!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do I find you here, you old sinner!” said he. “I have long sought you!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Sir," I answered, a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Then may God receive you, a repentant sinner," she said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In such frame of mind sinners come to the penitent form.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Again, I see her dark eyes roll round the church when she says “miserable sinners”, as if she were calling all the congregation names.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

—‘All is vanity and vexation of spirit,’ ‘There is no profit under the sun,’ ‘There is one event unto all,’ to the fool and the wise, the clean and the unclean, the sinner and the saint, and that event is death, and an evil thing, he says.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The neglect had been visited on the head of the sinner; for when poor Lady Elliot died herself, no letter of condolence was received at Kellynch, and, consequently, there was but too much reason to apprehend that the Dalrymples considered the relationship as closed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)