"as much sinning as sinned against" meaning in English

See as much sinning as sinned against in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Etymology: From William Shakespeare's King Lear # "I am a man more sinned against than sinning." Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} as much sinning as sinned against
  1. Of a person. Ones bad acts are possibly outweighed by the bad actions of others towards one.
    Sense id: en-as_much_sinning_as_sinned_against-en-phrase-B9ArNOMt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for as much sinning as sinned against meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From William Shakespeare's King Lear\n# \"I am a man more sinned against than sinning.\"",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "as much sinning as sinned against",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a person. Ones bad acts are possibly outweighed by the bad actions of others towards one."
      ],
      "id": "en-as_much_sinning_as_sinned_against-en-phrase-B9ArNOMt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "as much sinning as sinned against"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From William Shakespeare's King Lear\n# \"I am a man more sinned against than sinning.\"",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "as much sinning as sinned against",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a person. Ones bad acts are possibly outweighed by the bad actions of others towards one."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "as much sinning as sinned against"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.