"archsin" meaning in English

See archsin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: archsins [plural]
Etymology: arch- + sin Etymology templates: {{pre|en|arch|sin}} arch- + sin Head templates: {{en-noun}} archsin (plural archsins)
  1. A chief or primary sin.
    Sense id: en-archsin-en-noun-C7eueyjA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with arch-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for archsin meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "arch",
        "3": "sin"
      },
      "expansion": "arch- + sin",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "arch- + sin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "archsins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "archsin (plural archsins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with arch-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Raphael Patai, Sex and Family in the Bible and the Middle East, page 159",
          "text": "Illicit sex, on the other hand, is the archsin, the gravest crime, a transgression which carries in itself its horrible punishment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chief or primary sin."
      ],
      "id": "en-archsin-en-noun-C7eueyjA",
      "links": [
        [
          "chief",
          "chief"
        ],
        [
          "primary",
          "primary"
        ],
        [
          "sin",
          "sin"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "archsin"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "arch",
        "3": "sin"
      },
      "expansion": "arch- + sin",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "arch- + sin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "archsins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "archsin (plural archsins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with arch-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Raphael Patai, Sex and Family in the Bible and the Middle East, page 159",
          "text": "Illicit sex, on the other hand, is the archsin, the gravest crime, a transgression which carries in itself its horrible punishment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chief or primary sin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chief",
          "chief"
        ],
        [
          "primary",
          "primary"
        ],
        [
          "sin",
          "sin"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "archsin"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.