sin-ridden

sin-ridden

English

Etymology

sin +‎ ridden

Adjective

sin-ridden (comparative more sin-ridden, superlative most sin-ridden)

1. Dominated or plagued by sin.
   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Law of the Yukon” in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto: William Briggs, p. 8,

     In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,

     Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;

     Crimped with the crimes of a city, sin-ridden and bridled with lies,

     In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies.

   • 1953, K. J. Spalding, The Philosophy of Shakespeare, Oxford: George Ronald, Chapter 4, p. 171,

     The dramatist tunes his plays to suit his moods. If in his tragic mood Shakespeare had staged a sin-ridden world, in his new mood he was rather to stage a world in which sin looked like an intruder.

   • 1962, Elspeth Harley Schubert (translator), The Rain Bird by Sara Lidman, New York: George Braziller, Chapter 40, p. 202,

     There was something else, too, connected with Jonas and the cow, which made Manda refuse to have anything to do with the animal. She would not drink the milk of that “sin-ridden creature,” she would say when she went round the farms, begging for a sip of Christian cow’s milk.