sinnable

sinnable

English

Adjective

sinnable (comparative more sinnable, superlative most sinnable)

1. (obsolete) Able to sin.
   • 1669, William Gurnall, The Christian in Compleat Armour, Or, A Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil, Fifth Edition, Ralph Smith, page 291:

     He can charge the Angel themselves (who may be the Heavens in the fore-mentioned place) with folly, Job 4. 18. because though they never sinned, yet they are sinnable; 'tis possible they might sin, as some of their order have done, if not kept from it by confirming grace.

   • No year, circa 1835, Stephen Jarvis, An American's Experience in the British Army, manuscript reprinted in The Journal of American History 1, no. 3 (1907), page 443:

     I represented to my father that I was very sinable [sic], that I had done wrong in espousing a cause so repugnant to his feelings, and contrary to my own opinion also.

   • 1864, Albert Réville, A Manual of Religious Instruction (translated from the French original, Manuel d'Instruction Religieuse, 1863; translator unknown), Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., page 204:

     All the elements of sin are found in the narrative :—1, innocence ; 2, a known law accompanied with a clear prohibition ; 3, a sinnable nature ; 4, an object desirable to that nature ; 5, the activity of the temptation under a veiled and so not repulsive form ; 6, yielding to the seduction ; 7, conscious guilt ; 8, fear and flight ; 9, detection ; 10, exposure and condemnation.

Antonyms

• unsinnable