| 单词 |
sinless |
| 释义 |
sinless, a.|ˈsɪnlɪs|
Forms: 1–2 synleas, 4 sinles, 7– sinless; 2 synneleas, 4–5 -les, 6 -lesse; 3 sinnelæs, 7 -lesse; 4 senne-, sunneles.
[f. sin n. + -less. Cf. OS. sundilôs, OHG. suntilôs, (MHG. sundelôs, G. sündenlos), ON. and Icel. syndalauss (Sw. syndalös, Da. syndeløs).]
Free from, devoid of, without sin. Also const. of.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past C. liv. 423 Swa bið eac swiðe oft synleas yfel ᵹeðoht ðæm godum. c1000Ags. Gosp. John viii. 7 Hwylc eower si synleas [Hatton synneleas], wurpe ærest stan on hi. a1023Wulfstan Hom. xxiv. 121 Crist þrowade for us synleas. c1200Ormin 11020 Soþ mann, all þweorrt ut sinnelæs Off bodiȝ & off sawle. a1300Cursor M. 913 O man sinles þan mad i þe. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 217 Miht I sunneles don as þou seist? 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 525/2 He..beyng synnelesse hymselfe, paynefullye payed for oures. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. iv. (1640) 33 Such a Law, as was given to a sinnelesse and immortall creature. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 425 In calm and sinless peace. 1680in Howell State Trials (1816) VII. 1170 Sir Thomas was as sinless of it [the plot] as the child that was unborn. 17..Ramsay Lady Somerville's Bk. Songs 5 If she thy sinless faults forgive. 1738Wesley Ps. vi. vi, Make ev'n me..A sinless Saint below. 1813Shelley Q. Mab i. 11 Hath then the gloomy Power..Seized on her sinless soul? 1877E. R. Conder Basis Faith ii. 66 To pronounce any human being sinless is to pass a positive judgment carrying immense consequences.
Hence ˈsinlessly adv.
1696Lorimer Rem. Goodwin's Disc. vii. 69 To be always Sinlesly Holy in Heart and Life. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 290 The image of virgin growing up sinlessly to womanhood. 1867Contemp. Rev. IV. 474 A sinlessly holy co-redeemer. |
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