Sinful - Law Dictionary Search Results
Remorse
The anguish like gnawing pain excited by a sense of guilt compunction of conscience for a crime committed or for the sins of ones past life
Repentance
The act of repenting or the state of being penitent sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do especially contrition for sin
Confession to a priest
Confession to a priest. The English law does not recognise the duty of a priest (whether Roman Catholic or Anglican) to keep secrets revealed to him in his religious character, Normanshaw v. Normanshaw, (1893) 69 LT...
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Righteous
Doing or according with that which is right yielding to all their due just equitable especially free from wrong guilt or sin holy as a righteous man or act a righteous retribution
Scapegoat
A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness
Sinneress
A woman who sins
Sinusoid
The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas the equation of the curve being y a sin x It is also called the curve of sines
Absolution
Absolution, a dispensation; a remission of sins; an acquittal by sentence of law.
Adultery
Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case...
New Thought
Any form of belief in mental healing other than 1 Christian Science and 2 hypnotism or psychotherapy It was practised in the 19th century and its central principle was affirmative thought or suggestion employed with the...
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