unsin
English
Etymology
un- + sin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈsɪn/
Verb
unsin (third-person singular simple present unsins, present participle unsinning, simple past and past participle unsinned)
- (transitive) To undo or annul a past sin.
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive (a sin, etc.) of sinfulness; to make sinless.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- when a ſin is paſt, grief may leſſen it , but not unſin it.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
References
unsin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Ninus, Sunni