sin (v) = offend, transgress, blame

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Dear teachers,

Would you be kind enough to help me to understand the usage of “sin” in the following sentences?

Please, don’t blear my eyes saying laughable rubbish about a certain old English and suchlike bla-bla.

For six months I had been sinning bravely. Close pent-up guilts, (Mayne Reid, “The Quadroon”)

Rive your concealing continents, and cry
These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
More sinned against than sinning. (Shakespeare, "King Lear")

Margaret, I thought Mrs.Erlynne was a women more sinned against tan sinning, as the phrase goes.... I believe what she told me. I was mistaken in her. She is bad - s bad as a women can be. (Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermer's Fan")

sin = offend, transgress

to sin against priority
to sin against the laws of society

sin = blame (colloquial)

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