synne (pluralsynnes)
- Obsolete spelling ofsin.
- 1588?,Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” inCartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin),page 228
- If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuoussynne is it.
Inherited fromOld Englishsynn, fromProto-West Germanic*sunnju(“concern”), fromProto-Germanic*sunjō, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₁es-.
The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.
- (most dialects)IPA(key): /ˈsin(ə)/
- (West Midlands)IPA(key): /ˈsun(ə)/,(SW Midlands)/ˈzun(ə)/
- (Southern)IPA(key): /ˈzun(ə)/,/ˈzin(ə)/
- (Eastern)IPA(key): (Kentish)/ˈzɛn(ə)/,(East Anglian)/ˈsɛn(ə)/
synne (pluralsynnes or(rare) synnen)
- Iniquity,sinfulness;immoralbehaviour.
- Asin; areligiouslyimmoralaction:
- (specifically)Lewdness,promiscuity.
- Acertain(specified)kind orclass of sin.
- (more generally) Awrong; e.g. amistake orcrime.
synne
- (chiefly Early Middle English)Alternative form ofsonne(“sun”)
synne
- Alternative form ofsynnen(“to sin”)
synne
- inflection ofsynn:
- accusative/genitive/dativesingular
- nominative/accusativeplural
