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Tainted with or full of sin wicked iniquitous criminal unholy as sinful men sinful thoughts...
Purging
Purging, purging is a process by which an undesir-able element is expelled either from one's own self or from a society. It is a cleansing process. Purge is a word which acquired implications first in theological connotations. In the case of a sin, purging of such sin is made through the expression of sincere remorse coupled with doing the penance required. In the case of a guilt, purging means to get himself cleared of the guilt. The concept of purgatory was evolved from the word 'purge', which is a state of suffering after this life in which those souls, who depart this life with their deadly sins, are purified and render fit to enter into heaven where nothing defiled enters. (vide Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 35A, page 307), Pravin C. Shah v. K. A. Mohd Ali, AIR 2001 SC 3041 (3047): (2001) 8 SCC 650....
syndicate
syndicate [French syndicat the office or jurisdiction of a syndic] 1 : a group organized to carry out a particular transaction or enterprise 2 : an association of organized criminals [sin-di-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to form or manage as or through a syndicate [a syndicated tax shelter] vi : to unite to form a syndicate syn·di·ca·tion [sin-di-kā-shən] n ...
Sinner
One who has sinned especially one who has sinned without repenting hence a persistent and incorrigible transgressor one condemned by the law of God...
Socinianism
The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century who denied the Trinity the deity of Christ the personality of the Devil the native and total depravity of man the vicarious atonement and the eternity of future punishment His theory was that Christ was a man divinely commissioned who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary that human sin was the imitation of Adams sin and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christs virtue that the Bible was to be interpreted by human reason and that its language was metaphorical and not to be taken literally...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
rescind
rescind [Latin rescindere to cut loose, annul, from re- away, back + scindere to cut, split] vt 1 : to take back and make void [ed its suspension of his license] 2 : to abrogate (a contract or transaction) by mutual agreement, judicial decree, or unilateral declaration because of fraud, mistake, duress, misrepresentation, illegality, a breach, or another sufficient ground with both parties restored to their positions before the contract was made [denied that the other party had the right to the contract] compare cancel, terminate 3 : to make void by the same or by a superior authority [ a regulation] vi : to rescind something (as a contract) re·scind·able [-sin-də-bəl] adj ...
Besetment
The act of besetting or the state of being beset also that which besets one as a sin...
Besetting
Habitually attacking harassing or pressing upon or about as a besetting sin...
Christian Science
A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental and that sin sickness and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus teaching and healing The system was founded by Rev Mary Baker Glover Eddy of Concord N H in 1866 and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents...
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