English words for 'Guilty of apostasy.'
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adj
noun
- (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
- (countable, religion) A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
- (by extension) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts their cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
- (intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
- (intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
adj
- Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
- (linguistics, of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
- (chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
- Apt or likely to change.
- liable to change
- (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
noun
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
noun
- an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
- (Roman Catholicism, theology) A sin which causes the loss of God's grace, leading to eternal damnation, unless the sinner repents, which includes their intent to confess and atone; such a sin is defined as a grave transgression against one of the Ten Commandments with the full knowledge and deliberate consent of the sinner.
verb
noun
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- hold back within
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.
- (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- take vows, as in religious order
- state freely
- confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- state insincerely
- receive into a religious order or congregation
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
adj
noun
adj
- guilty of a misdeed
- past due; not paid at the scheduled time
- failing in what duty requires
- Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
- Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
noun
verb
- (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- adjust the spaces between words
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (transitive) To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
noun
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- An interval of time between events.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
verb
- torture and torment like a martyr
- kill as a martyr
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
verb
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
- (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
- (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
- (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
verb
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- make excessive use of
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- break the law
- enter unlawfully on someone's property
- (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
- (transitive, law, especially New Zealand) To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass
- (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
noun
adj
- having committed unrighteous acts
- morally bad in principle or practice
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- naughtily or annoyingly playful
- Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
- Harsh; severe.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.
- Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.
- (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
- Having a wick.
verb
adj
adj
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- unrestrained and uninhibited
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
verb
verb
noun
noun
- (Christianity, uncountable) The forgiveness of sin.
- (typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
- (countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.
- something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary
- a statement in explanation of some action or belief
- the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning
noun
- (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing their sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
- an admission of misdeeds or faults
- a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
- a public declaration of your faith
- the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
- A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
- (chiefly Japanese media) The act of professing one's love.
- A formal document providing such an admission.
- Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
- The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
- (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
noun
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
verb
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
intj
verb
- turn away from sin or do penitence
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
- (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
- (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
adj
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
- (intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
- (intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
noun
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
noun
- an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
- (Roman Catholicism, theology) A sin which causes the loss of God's grace, leading to eternal damnation, unless the sinner repents, which includes their intent to confess and atone; such a sin is defined as a grave transgression against one of the Ten Commandments with the full knowledge and deliberate consent of the sinner.
noun
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- An interval of time between events.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
verb
- torture and torment like a martyr
- kill as a martyr
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
noun
- (Christianity, uncountable) The forgiveness of sin.
- (typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
- (countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.
- something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary
- a statement in explanation of some action or belief
- the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning
noun
- (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing their sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
- an admission of misdeeds or faults
- a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
- a public declaration of your faith
- the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
- A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
- (chiefly Japanese media) The act of professing one's love.
- A formal document providing such an admission.
- Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
- The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
- (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
noun
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
verb
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
intj
verb
noun
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
noun
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- hold back within
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.
- (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- take vows, as in religious order
- state freely
- confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- state insincerely
- receive into a religious order or congregation
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
verb
- (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- adjust the spaces between words
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (transitive) To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
verb
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
- (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
- (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
- (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
verb
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- make excessive use of
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- break the law
- enter unlawfully on someone's property
- (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
- (transitive, law, especially New Zealand) To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass
- (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- turn away from sin or do penitence
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
- (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
- (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
adj
adj
noun
- (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
- (countable, religion) A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
- (by extension) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts their cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
adj
- Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
- (linguistics, of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
- (chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
- Apt or likely to change.
- liable to change
- (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
adj
noun
adj
- guilty of a misdeed
- past due; not paid at the scheduled time
- failing in what duty requires
- Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
- Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
noun
noun
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
adj
- having committed unrighteous acts
- morally bad in principle or practice
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- naughtily or annoyingly playful
- Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
- Harsh; severe.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.
- Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.
- (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
- Having a wick.
verb
adj
adj
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- unrestrained and uninhibited
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants